On 03/03/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
A question for the participants in wikien-l:
The listmods would quite like to turn on the flag whereby messages from non-subscribers are automatically rejected or discarded.
- It would reduce the spamload and thus make moderation faster.
- It would avoid situations where people post unsubscribed, others
reply to the list, and the original poster doesn't get the replies.
- wikien-l isn't unblock-l any more, and for general outside contact
we have info@wikimedia.org. So there doesn't appear to be an obvious need for it.
Against:
- the Wikipedia principle of allowing everything and only closing
things off as it becomes *necessary*. This is more a "mod pain in the backside" and "some increase in listmod efficiency" thing.
So we want to run it past the list, you the participants we serve, first. For/against and why? (This is not quite a straw poll.)
- d.
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This is the kind of list where there is no reason not to be subscribed if you want to participate (unlike unblock-l, arbcom-l etc). I agree with the proposal.