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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2011-04-06 20:54:58 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>2011-04-06 20:54:58 +0200
commitf85b983ee7cfbff5a12ada424e9a848882991231 (patch)
tree12bbc0c03b3d355662ca675997504f23378a03eb /mailing_lists
parent596b1af9d8cd8668699000d3aca53feb4ef07067 (diff)
mailing_lists/unmoderated: Also for first message after subscribing.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mailing_lists/unmoderated.mdwn b/mailing_lists/unmoderated.mdwn
index 4bef130e..385f2615 100644
--- a/mailing_lists/unmoderated.mdwn
+++ b/mailing_lists/unmoderated.mdwn
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
-is included in the section entitled
-[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
In fact the lists *are* moderated for users that post from not-subscribed email
addresses. However, this moderation should be transparent to the poster, you
@@ -14,6 +15,8 @@ only might notice some additional delay until your message shows up on the
list, as it has to be handled manually. Note that this is a one-time delay, as
the address will be added to a white-list, so that further messages from the
same sending address will get through immediatelly.
+The same holds for people who are sending their first message after subscribing
+to a list. These two measures greatly help to keep the lists' spam level low.
So, to initiate a discussion you do not need to subscribe to the mailing list
in question. And people are very much encouraged to maintain the CC