mailing list suggestion: all lists accept posts from subscribers to any list

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 20 20:28:22 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:39:54AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> I would be -1 to it. The main reasons are:
> 1) The person who has done this is now cut out of the thread on the lists
> he is not subscribed to.

I'm presuming reply-to-all, keeping all the different lists. The above
happens _now_, but more and more people get cut off as various lists get
removed from the to/cc lines depending on who replies.

> 3) One of the reasons for subscriber only is to cut down SPAM a little bit.
> This is by making sure that if you are going to send crap to every list you
> need to subscribe to them. Now you can subscribe to one and get all the
> lists as a freebie.

True. Definite downside.



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