Re: [Vim-latex-devel] SPAM again

[Srinath A. <sr...@fa...>]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Preben Randhol wrote:

> How many post exactly do you get from people that are not in the list?
> I don't buy this argument. It seems to me that the only purpose this
> policy servers is to allow a bunch of spam messages to get in.
>
Actually, a _lot_ of very useful e-mail to the list comes from people
not subscribed. For example, recently there were quite a lof of new very
useful features added to the folding scheme... I think you might have
noticed a few e-mails between Zhang Linbo and myself regarding this.
Linbo is not subscribed to the list... But he has written some
extremeley helpful e-mails including submitting patches etc. So has Alex
Jakushev... again very helpful e-mails which include helpful patches...
These are just examples from the last week or so. In general I do find
that lots of non-subscribers write useful emails to the list. Even when
they do not submit patches, 95% of the people who submit bug reports are
not subscribed... I would hate to create a barrier of entry for them
since that would mean that the vim-latex developement would suffer.

> Can you please reconsider? Make a form on your web-page that people can
> fill out if they have problems. Then this result can be mailed to a
> moderator before inclusion in the mailinglist. It isn't hard and it
> would save the rest of us a lot of very annoying spam.

I would _really_ welcome the suggestion if someone agrees to moderate.
I unfortunately, have no time or inclination for doing this. I am
already swamped with too many things to do to take something as tedious
as this upon myself. If you wish, you could moderate :-) (seriously...)

Quite frankly though, I would suggest setting up some good anti-spam
software on your system... I am seriously thinking of setting up
spambayes myself, but again, haven't had time...

Sorry about the pain, I feel it every day... :(

Srinath