[Important] New behavior for spam handling on this list

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

To me it is as much  or little of an inconvenience as reading the manual ;-0-O

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On 07/04/2022 10:12, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:
> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes via lyx-users said on Wed, 6 Apr 2022 16:01:16
> +0200
> 
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Until now, the handling of the list was like: messages from
>> subscribers go through, other messages get discarded.
>>
>> There is actually a way to filter e-mails marked as spam, and I have
>> already changed all our other lists to take advantage of this
>> information.
>>
>> Today it is lyx-users' turn. The new behavior is:
>> * spams are automatically discarded; please notify the list if a
>> message of yours just disappears. It seems to work correctly on the
>> other lists that we have;
>> * members posts not qualified as spam go through as usual;
>> * remaining non-member posts are held for moderation.
>>
>> The big advantage is that now non-subscribers will be able to post
>> messages (with a low amount of manual moderation from my side).
>>
>> Comments welcome.
> 
> I'd suggest you put it back the way it was. I'm on 30+ FOSS mailing
> lists, and can't police everything to see that it goes through. If some
> AI algorithm somewhere decides I'm spam because of my email provider
> or whatever, I'm just writing into the wind, wasting a lot of time.
> 
> And what's the supposed upside? So non-subscribers can post. Look at
> any netiquette guide and they'll roundly catcall the clowns who begin
> or end their message with "please CC me because I'm not on the list."
> 
> Let's not inconvenience valuable list members to accommodate those so
> lazy they can't take 5 minutes to join the mailing list.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt
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