Re: subscription-request procedure?

[Vincent Danen <vdanen () linsec ca>]

* [2008-02-19 16:36:45 -0500] Josh Bressers wrote:

> > > Since folks like Jim are exactly the type of people we want on the list,
> > > we need to make the process fairly simple (and fast, if possible) to
> > > prevent turning people off.
> >
> > In fact, I think even something as simple as compulsory introduction
> > will turn some people away - e.g., those Open Source authors who are new
> > to security and would like to listen to our conversations before they
> > might dare to introduce themselves.
> >
> > Maybe we don't really require it?  Maybe we don't really need to make
> > this list subscription-moderated?  This implies that we'll have to
> > enable message moderation (with its associated delays) even for list
> > members at some point, though.
> >
> > To avoid the delays, we might enhance (patch) ezmlm-idx to honor its
> > "allow" list even for fully-message-moderated lists.  This is probably
> > not too hard to do, although I have not looked into it.  Normally, the
> > "allow" list appears to only be honored for lists that are
> > message-moderated for non-members.
>
> Yes, these are very good points.  I think the best solution at the moment
> would be to let anyone who is subscribed to post, and let anyone subscribe.
> If we have problems, we can tighten things up a bit later.
>
> This is one of the tricking things when starting something up such as this.
> It's easy to solve problems that don't exist, which then end up turning
> people away.
>
> FWIW, mailman has the ability to enable individual user moderation.
> Something similar would certainly be a useful feature here.

Sounds good to me.  Maybe having the thing unfettered for a time and see
how it works would be best.  If problems do come up, we can always fall
back to the subscriber-moderation and/or message moderation (although,
to be honest, I'm more in favour of subscriber-moderation than message
moderation unless spam starts to become a real problem).

--
Vincent Danen @ http://linsec.ca/

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