[e2e] latest spate of cruft postings to e2e

[Lixia Zhang]

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> 
> Perry E.Metzger wrote:
> 
>> Joe Touch <touch at ISI.EDU> writes:
>> 
>>> I appreciate that whitelisting is harder on the receive end of a list
>>> (you can still do it, and will end up accumulating some of the list
>>> anyway). The content filters we use are not perfect, but neither is
>>> whitelisting.
>> 
>> It has been years since a spam went to one of my mailing lists run on
>> a "subscribers post only" basis.
> 
> But it hasn't been that long since I tried to post to one and had to
> subscribe to post. At which point I gave up, since I don't always want -
> or need - to subscribe to every list to which I might want to
> participate briefly.
> 
> That's the behavior we're trying to avoid by the list configuration.

We are talking about the tradeoffs here: whether the protection for the
whole list (I don¹t know how many people are on, I assume it's above 500)
from "subscribers post only" would be worth the cost of that inconvenience
upon some people's brief participation.

My personal answer is yes.
 
>> Can you say the same for your mailing
>> lists?
>> 
>> I appreciate that you will never change your position, however, and I
>> don't want to add noise on top of spam.
>> 
>> Perry