Re: [Sbcl-devel] closing lists to non-subscribers?

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On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 01:23:37PM -0500, William Harold Newman wrote:
> Marco Antoniotti has reminded me again to consider closing the 
> list to nonsubscribers. The
> 
> level of spam which succeeds in bravely struggling across the
> SourceForge red carpet is now so high that I am basically ready to do
> it. However so far I've avoided doing it on the theory that I can't
> see all the consequences and some of them might be perverse. If anyone
> wants to predict consequences more serious than the spam, this would
> be a good time to speak up. Otherwise, I'll probably try to make the
> change within a week or so.

I'm actually subscribed to the list as bd-...@la....  I tend
to subscribe to things with unique email addresses so that if the list
or whatever winds up not letting me unsubscribe (it's happened before)
it's easy to drop it.  (I think my Sourceforge user is tied to that
address too, but I'm not sure.)

This is moot for this list now, though, so I'm happy to resubscribe with
my real address.  Something similar might be an issue for others, though.

(Or it's possible theres a way for list users to state what other
addresses are aliases for themselves in whatever SF uses for list
management.  That would be ideal, though, so I assume it's not the case.
:)

-bcd