Why would you want to post to a mailing list you weren't subscribed to? I'm missing the 'use case' here, to evaluate whether it's worth the spam trade off. (And we DO gets lots of spam to the editors-only list, which we have open to non-posters because the use-case is that that's the only way for non-editors to communicate with editors to for instance submit an article. :) Google groups gets most of it, but sends me an annoying message every time it stops a spammer. Which I just filter to my trash can. Hopefully I'm not missing any other important google groups admin messages).
> Why would you want to post to a mailing list you weren't subscribed to?
As I recall, a few months ago, we had some suggestions from a reader. People who are occasionally involved but not heavily involved, or people who just don't like getting email (or subscribing nomail).
Spam is a big issue, so perhaps we're best leaving things as is.
Yes, I need to can those messages from Google, too. (It's phantom-spam!)
To me, people can either subscribe to discuss (if they want to participate in the discussion and see the responses), or they can email c4lj-articles (if they just want to drop a suggestion into a suggestion box, the end). Maybe c4lj-articles ought to be called c4lj-editors, since that's what it is, but we have enough trouble remembering to discuss business that could be open on the open discuss list already. The -articles is supposed to be a reminder for us that if it doesn't need to be confidential, it doesn't need to be there. But it doesnt' seem to be working anyway. :)
Jodi Schneider wrote: >> Why would you want to post to a mailing list you weren't subscribed to?
> As I recall, a few months ago, we had some suggestions from a reader. People > who are occasionally involved but not heavily involved, or people who just > don't like getting email (or subscribing nomail).
> Spam is a big issue, so perhaps we're best leaving things as is.
> Yes, I need to can those messages from Google, too. (It's phantom-spam!)
> -Jodi
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote:
>> I think the reason that it's not open is we worry that will result in >> lots of spam.
>> Do people think it should be opened? I can also make any other editors >> that want full managers of the google groups list. Jodi, you want it?
>> Jonathan
>> Jodi Schneider wrote:
>>> Could you please open this list up for public posting? I received an >>> error when posting from a non-subscribed address.
>>> Thanks!
>>> -Jodi
>> -- >> Jonathan Rochkind >> Digital Services Software Engineer >> The Sheridan Libraries >> Johns Hopkins University >> 410.516.8886 >> rochkind (at) jhu.edu
-- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
