[WikiEN-l] Suggestion: Bouncing mail from non-subscribed addresses

[Majorly]

On 03/03/2008, David Gerard <dgerard at 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 at 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.

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Alex (Majorly)

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