freebsd stable - Aug 2003 - Request to mailing list freebsd-security rejected

Umm.  First of all, I *AM* a member of this list, unless someone else
    unsubcribed me.  If so, please put me back on.  I've gone through my
    archives and I am very clearly subscribed to the list.  The monthly
    freebsd.org mailing list memberships reminder tells me I am.

List                                     Password // URL
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freebsd-security@freebsd.org             ......    
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-security/dillon%40backplane.com

    Secondly, the policy outlined below is ludicrous.  The lists are here to
    facilitate communications between people on various topics.  As long
    as the communication is legitimate it is in the best interests of everyone
    to NOT reject postings from non-subscribed members.  If the moderator
    cannot be bothered with moderating the list, then perhaps a new moderator
    should be chosen.

    What bozo decided to enact this irrational policy?

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

:
:Your request to the freebsd-security mailing list
:
:    Posting of your message titled "Re: statically compiled files left
:over after a 'make world'"
:
:has been rejected by the list moderator.  The moderator gave the
:following reason for rejecting your request:
:
:"Non-members are not allowed to post messages to this list.
:
:Please subscribe to post."
:
:Any questions or comments should be directed to the list administrator
:at:
:
:    freebsd-security-owner@freebsd.org
:

I wouldn't call that an irrational policy at all.  I'm on one rather 
large list which is frequently a victim of spam, however most spammers 
are not willing to subscribe to lists (thankfully) to spam them, so 
dropping non-member email automagically before it goes to the list or 
even a moderator seems to make a good bit of sense.
This is, of course, one of those topics along with FreeBSD vs. Linux or 
Perl vs. Python of which nothing ever comes besides holy wars.  ;-)
But I am very curious why this was posted to stable@freebsd.org, which 
has nothing to do with the security@ list?

Oh, and by the way -
Your post was rejected because (as per the url you pasted in) you're 
subscribed as dillon@backplane.com but the From: field of your messages 
seems to be dillon@apollo.backplane.com.  So this is entirely a 
configuration error on your end/your mail client.

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Secondly, the policy outlined below is ludicrous.  The lists are here
to
>     facilitate communications between people on various topics.  As long
>     as the communication is legitimate it is in the best interests of
everyone
>     to NOT reject postings from non-subscribed members.  If the moderator
>     cannot be bothered with moderating the list, then perhaps a new
moderator
>     should be chosen.
> 
>     What bozo decided to enact this irrational policy?