test list rejecting unsubscribed senders

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 20:23 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 12/05/2012 05:10 PM, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > Some of the existing or previous list admins, obviously. I don't remember who.
> > The changes made were related to LinkedIn spam going into moderation queue instead of being discarded.
> > The settings have not been unchanged for 4 years, that's not true.
> 
> Any changes to our list settings should be announced to this list and 
> who's granted list admin access actually matters since it usually 
> requires a very special type of people to be handled properly from my 
> pov thus the community should have a saying in who those individuals are.

At present, myself, Tim and Kamil have admin access. We haven't changed
anything major for years AFAIR. Kamil wasn't planning to *change*
anything, he thought something had broken and needed fixing, but it
turned out to be a false alarm.

We fiddle with the filtering for annoying stuff like linkedin spam now
and again, but basically, it's a straightforward setup - you subscribe
and then you can post whatever you like. There is no active moderation
of content.

> >
> > Johann, I replied to you according to "be excellent to each other"
> principle. I would appreciate if you formulated your questions also
> according to this principle, instead of being aggressive. Otherwise
> your question might go unanswered next time. Thank you.
> 
> You call that aggressive?

It did come off as a little bit aggressive, yeah. I believe this happens
quite a bit - you have a style that can read as aggressive without you
necessarily knowing it. You use the general construction 'who gave you
the power/right to XXX...' quite a bit - I think you might not know that
this comes off as kind of a rude way of phrasing the question, in
colloquial English. If you asked someone the question that way in casual
conversation, they'd feel like they were being attacked and get
defensive. I don't think you meant it that way, but it can be read that
way.

I gave Kamil and Tim their admin access, James gave me admin access.
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