Re: Request to restrict posting permission to debian-devel-announce

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>]

Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> writes:

> Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:47:27 +0100, Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE> said:
> > >
> > > I wonder if it would be useful to turn [debian-devel-announce] into a
> > > moderated list where all "team leaders", * engeneers and * managers
> > > would get post permission while "normal users" won't.
> > 
> > Perhaps it could bounce back any mail not containing a magic
> > header (X-Approved, for analogy with USENET, perhaps), with
> > instructions to add the magic header and resubmit if you really
> > want it to go to debian-devel-announce.
> 
> This means that it is moderated. :-)

Specifically, that it would be self-moderated.  This has worked
to good effect on a number of USENET groups.  For instance,
alt.hackers has done this for years with good results.
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