Should we keep this list subscriber-only?

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Hello, everyone,

you may not have been aware of this, but the new gnuplot-beta mailing list
at sourceforge restricts the right to post mails to its subscribers to the
subscribers themselves.  This may or may not be a good thing.

As it is right now, submissions by non-members will be held for approval
by an admin (i.e: myself), which may delay their processing by a day or
more, and thus encumber the flow of discussion.  I've just cut a path
through an absolutely enormous back-log of such mailing list
administration requests, over 99 percent of which was junk mail to the
dartmouth list which ended up in the admin interface at SF.net (thanks to
Dave Denholm and the guys at Dartmouth for setting up a better solution to
this, which will be used from now on).  The flurry of belated mails you're
seeing today are the remaining less than 1 percent as accumulated in about
a month (plus replies to those).

OTOH, if I open up the list for posting by everybody, that means all
that's standing guard between your inbox and the unwashed masses of junk
mailers out there waiting to flood it is the automatic spam filtering
system used by SourceForge.  That's quite a successful one, granted, but
still not 100% leakproof.

Before changing this, I'ld like a poll.  So: if anybody has strong
opinions in either direction, please voice them soon.

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.