CentOS - Sep 2005 - Posting Messages to this list

All,

This list is a "Members Only" posting list ... this is good because it
prevents us from getting hundreds of Viagra commercials and such.

You can only post to the list with the e-mail address that you
subscribed with.

If you post from another e-mail address, it will tell you that "Your
post needs to be approved by a Moderator."

I just want to tell everyone that I normally _DO_NOT_ approve these
posts to the list.  It has nothing to do with the post not being good or
me not liking you or your post :)

What it does have to do with is SPAM.  We get hundreds of e-mails per
day to each list as SPAM, and it would take several hours each day to
touch each every e-mail from a non-member and verify it was relevant and
not spam.  I am sorry, but I just don't have time to do this.

If you post to a CentOS mailing list and you get one of those messages,
you should repost your comments using the correct e-mail address that
you subscribed with.  You do not need to worry about removing the old
post, as I will delete it along with all the others.

Sorry for the inconvenience,
Johnny Hughes
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Johnny Hughes wrote:
> All,
> 
> This list is a "Members Only" posting list ... this is good
because it
> prevents us from getting hundreds of Viagra commercials and such.
Yep! I did this on accident a few time, posting with the wrong 
e-mail address. One of these days I will get it right.

Alex White

On 9/6/05, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
wrote:
> All,
> 
> This list is a "Members Only" posting list ... this is good
because it
> prevents us from getting hundreds of Viagra commercials and such.
Thank you.
> What it does have to do with is SPAM.  We get hundreds of e-mails per
> day to each list as SPAM, and it would take several hours each day to
> touch each every e-mail from a non-member and verify it was relevant and
> not spam.  I am sorry, but I just don't have time to do this.
I think everyone will agree you have better things to do with your time.

-- 
Leonard Isham, CISSP 
Ostendo non ostento.

Johnny Hughes wrote:
>All,
>
>This list is a "Members Only" posting list ... this is good
because it
>prevents us from getting hundreds of Viagra commercials and such.
>
>You can only post to the list with the e-mail address that you
>subscribed with.
>
>If you post from another e-mail address, it will tell you that "Your
>post needs to be approved by a Moderator."
>
>I just want to tell everyone that I normally _DO_NOT_ approve these
>posts to the list.  It has nothing to do with the post not being good or
>me not liking you or your post :)
>
><SNIP>
>  
>
Thanks Johnny,

I used to keep up with one of the Debian lists that was not "Members 
Only", nor moderated.  The SPAM was immense and forced me to unsubscribe 
from a somewhat informative list.

I really appreciate this decision on CentOS's part.  It makes this a 
much nicer forum to read.

--Shawn

On 6/9/05 12:26 pm, in article 1126005991.5784.103.camel at myth.home.local,
"Johnny Hughes" <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> You can only post to the list with the e-mail address that you
> subscribed with.
If you find this inconvenient then check out gmane.org, which enables web,
rss feed and nntp browsing -- and posting -- to this list and hundreds more.

-- 
U n d e r a c h i e v e r
...and proud