I thought you had to wait for approval by a list admin, but that approval was more-or-less automatic...

Harry

From: Thehelpfulone <thehelpfulonewiki@gmail.com>
To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Friday, 30 March 2012, 1:04
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] List archives

On 29 March 2012 21:59, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com> wrote:
On 29 March 2012 21:43, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 29/03/2012 13:29, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>
>> I've just noticed the list archives for this list (accessible via the link
>> in the footer) are restricted to subscribers only (although there is no
>> restriction on who can subscribe). Is that intentional and, if so, why?
>
> There are (public) clones of the archives....

And it takes all of a few seconds to subscribe and get access to the
official ones. That's why I'm struggling to see the point of having
them restricted.

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So just to confirm, if I sign up to this mailing list and click the confirmation email link, I'm subscribed? There's no moderation by a list admin or anything like that? If that's the case, then I agree that there's no point having a private list archive.
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