Re: Meet us on Wine Alley

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Dan Mueth <d-mueth uchicago edu> writes:

> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:59:00AM +0100 or thereabouts, francois xavier bodin winealley com wrote:
> > > www.wine-alley.com is a virtual Club for all those interested in 
> > > wine in both a professional and personal capacity.
> > 
> > Hic! Clearly he's heard about Guadec :)
> > 
> > More seriously, can I suggest we make gnome-doc-list "posters-only": 
> > mailman has a nice option where non-member posts are held in a queue
> > for approvals or not, so people posting from alternative addresses or
> > wanting to ask questions without subscribing will still see their
> > messages get through, if we have someone willing to do to "approve,
> > approve, don't approve.." stuff.
> 
> It is interesting this got through.  I thought the list was set up to only
> allow suscribers to post.  I believe that is why we have docs gnome org
> which forwards to this list, so that non-subscribers could post questions
> and comments about documentation without subscribing.

At Dave's request some time ago, gnome-doc-list is different from all
the other GNOME mailing lists in allowing posts by non-subscribers.
This is precisely so mail to docs gnome org goes through.

This was more important before the transition to Mailman than
currently. With the old smartlist setup, posts from non-members would
just get bounced; with Mailman they will get held for approval, which
may be appropriate.

Probably the first step to change this is making somebody the owner of
gnome-doc-list; currently adminstrative requests just go into a pile
with a couple of other unowned lists (gnome-themes-list...)  That
person could a) change the policy and see how it works out b) handle
mail to docs gnome org held for approval.

Regards,
                                        Owen