Tahir Hashmi writes:
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 19:51:49 +0530 (IST) Philip S Tellis wrote:
looking at posts from the last few days, it seems that there is no more quality left in this list.
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I've heard of a few mailing lists where the subscribers themselves need to reply to their first post before it gets distributed. If it is possible to do something like this for ILUG-Bom, an automated response can be sent by the mailer for the very first post of a new subscriber, and the first post may not be distributed. The automated response would remind the poster of the guidelines and have pointers to RFC 1855 etc. If the OP still thinks that his query is appropriate, he may post it again, this time without any policing from the mailer. I hope this would catch a lot of newbies looking for urgent help on Linux 8.0 that they might have got from a long lost friend (btw, RHL 9 is due out 2003-04 to make matters worse :p).
This is actually a pretty good idea.
Getting a little more strict, the ML software can reject and send an autoresponse to mails that don't contain any subject or contain taboo words like "urgent" or "help" (without 3 other words or so). But I guess this option might have been explored before.
That brings us again to the topic of "censorship". Most of us would vote for a user moderated mailing list. Our only safeguard are aware members.
Vinayak Hegde APGDST Student NCST-JUHU