Annoying mail (was Hershey Felder, Hebrew Musical Instruments, A Vital Part Of Culture)
Alfred M. Szmidt
ams at gnu.org
Wed Jan 23 21:36:34 UTC 2008
> I understand your point. However I run several lists and
> prefer to manually approve serious mails instead of spamming
> every member by keeping the gates open. It is a bit more work
> but keeps frustration away from list members. Of course this
> is just an opinion.
> Instead of simply rejecting them, moderate all the non-subscribed
> messages. The best of two worlds.
Manual approval from nonmembers, letting through anything vaguely
on-topic written by a human, is not onerous and wouldn't break
expectations.
Letting one annoying message slip through for every 100 is quite
acceptable.
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