[cl-faq] Opening up list all together?

[Peter Seibel]

On Jan 11, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Larry Clapp wrote:

> What about the mailing list archive at
> http://www.lispniks.com/pipermail/cl-faq?  It'd have the spam, too,
> wouldn't it?  Ick.

That's an excellent point. That decides it. I'm going to turn of  
posting from non-members. For the moment I've just changed the ALU  
page to tell folks to send FAQ submissions to me. When I get around  
to it I'll set up a cl-faq-editor list or alias or whatever for  
submissions.

> Maybe you could close the list, add a trailer to each message along
> the lines of "If you are not subscribed please send FAQ submissions to
> cl-faq-submissions at lispniks.com", and also include that in the
> message that mailman sends when it bounces submissions from
> non-subscribers.

Since almost all of the non-subscriber posts are spam (with  
presumably fake addresses) I don't want to make the internet  
bandwidth wastage problem worse by replying to them--I'm just going  
to set it up to toss the messages.

-Peter

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