[Adium-devl] Spam on this list

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On May 3, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Eric Richie wrote:

>> Perhaps psa's "require registration to post" is a good move. It
>> doesn't cause us any extra work. Thoughts?
>
> Last time we discussed that it was shot down because it makes an  
> extra step for users and we all know that users will take any  
> opportunity to bitch about having to register.  However since this  
> is supposed to be a development related list, I don't see that as  
> being a big deal.
>
> -Eric


	Over at MacPorts I personally set all our mailing lists as requiring  
registration to post, no questions asked, no concessions made. A bit  
dictatorial....? Well, I do come from Latin America ;-) But well,  
uuuggghhh, disgusting jokes put aside, the very simple argument was  
"it's for the better good" and, truth be told, almost everyone agreed  
(both team members and list subscribers). The few that didn't, I just  
simply gave them the "Sorry, it's a simple a spam fighting technique"  
answer and more often than not they were happy to abide. A case could  
be made that those that even then didn't want to abide simply lacked  
the necessary netiquette to belong in a large scale mailing list.

	In any case, it's a step that I would most definitely recommend, even  
more for a development list in which you can safely assume, I believe,  
that those that care to sign up also care enough about the project to  
respect its rules. If they don't care *that* much for the latter...  
then maybe they don't really care that much about the former either.

	My two cents,

- jmpp

PS: I should emphasize that I enforced the registration-to-post rule  
even on our general users mailing lists, which is several times larger  
than our development one, and even there the vast majority was more  
than happy to accept-understand-respect--and-defend the rules (even if  
that sounds a tad too much like 1984! ;-)