Re: Virus Alert - ScanMail for Lotus Notes
At 01:16 AM 11/22/02 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:03:38PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
>> This list allows non-subscribers to post, right? Why is that?
>
>If you've been around for a bit, you'll have seen really quite frequent
>posts from people saying "I can't handle the volume of this list, so I'm
>not subscribed; please cc me on replies". The spam volume, especially
>with SpamAssassin running on the list host, is nowhere near high enough
>to justify blowing off those people.
I agree about it not being that bad.
But if someone doesn't subscribe they have the chance that a reply to their
question won't go to them (only to the list). And I also think it's
trivial and fast to subscribe during time you ask your question and expect
replies.
Not so important with this crowd, but on large lists where people use
Outlook, a non-sub needed policy is an easy way to send out nice
Outlook-targeted attachments!
Of course, now a single "Virus Alert" message has become a thread. So much
for keeping the traffic down...
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Bill Moseley
mailto:moseley@hank.org
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