Re: OT Recent Spammings of Lilypond

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> >> > Is there anything that can be done on the administrators side to stop
> >> > these things? or are we forever going to receive these things?
> >> 
> >> It should be possible for the mail administrators to configure the list 
> >> such 
> that no-one other than list members can post to it.
> 
> It *is* possible but not necessarily desirable, particularly on *this*
> list to which the documentation points new users with questions.  This
> question has arisen a number of times before now and each time the project
> leaders have chosen explicitly to leave the discussion lists open.

If the spam really gets out of hand, we could moderate the mailing
list for non subscribers -- unfortunately, it requires that we have
volunteers for moderators.  (any takers?)

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Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden    | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/