Daily Laugh!

From: Bill Yakowenko <yakowenk_at_cs.unc.edu>
Date: Sun Jan 31 16:25:34 1999

On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_u.washington.edu> wrote:
] > Um, Derek, you're gonna unsubscribe this, right?
]
] I just did, and they weren't subscribed in the first place.
]
] I wonder if I can change the configuration so that only subscribed people
] can send things to the list? Is that really a good idea?
]
] -- Derek

One possible problem is that I often stumble across somebody needing
advice or having some interesting thing available, and it often tell
them just to send mail to this list. Heck, I just got through telling
this to the guy maintaining the US EPA computer recycling web page.
He replied, agreeing to mention it. (But it looks like he has not yet
done it.) Here's the (hideous) URL:
        http://epainotes1.rtpnc.epa.gov:7777/r10/owcm.nsf/d60e13abe847c4cb882564de0071f735/0b492e2e35a1016e88256517007681dd?OpenDocument

Seems like the choice is between being open to spam, being less
friendly to outsiders, or requiring constant work by a moderator.

How about making this list open to posting only from subscribers,
and having some secondary list address (ie: another list) that is
left totally open, and anything interesting gets forwarded from
that to the real list. Only one person at a time need subscribe
to the secondary list, and act as the forwarder. So Derek wouldn't
get overworked, and we could take turns on "door-duty" just by
changing who subscribes to that.

It's clunky, but it's the best idea I've had in the past sixty
seconds. :-)

        Bill.
Received on Sun Jan 31 1999 - 16:25:34 GMT

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