[HCoop-Discuss] Mailing list subscription policies

[kattla]

How about ignoring the issue? Is it not reasonable to expect people
who has subscribed manually with a non-hcoop address to also
unsubscribe manually when they leave hcoop (unless they still want to
be subscribed)?
If for some lists we really don't want non-members we don't have to
allow non-hcoop addresses for those.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Adam Chlipala <adamc at hcoop.net> wrote:
> Richard Darst wrote:
>> Hello -discuss,
>>
>> At first, I wasn't going to comment since I figured it wouldn't come
>> to anything, but this morning I was thinking that I should say
>> something, at least to promote the spirit I'd rather hcoop be...
>>
>> (Moving to -discuss since this is more of a philosophical thing)
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 02:25:24PM -0400, Adam Chlipala wrote:
>>
>>
>>> - Our current policy is not to allow subscriptions from addresses that
>>> aren't in the form USER at hcoop.net.  Members should subscribe only
>>> through the portal, and you should reject direct subscription requests
>>> of any kind.  Sending from non-HCoop addresses is supported through
>>> whitelisting by moderators, and receipt of list mail at arbitrary
>>> addresses is supported by forwarding from HCoop accounts.  (The policy
>>> is open to discussion, but I still think it's the right way to do things.)
>>>
>>
>> I strongly feel that this isn't the right default policy...
>>
>> As an open, community, cooperative project, I think defaults should be
>> open.  (of course, there could be specific exceptions, like the
>> sysadmin list what was already discussed at some point in the past.)
>> I think the question should be "why not" rather than "why".
>>
>
> One non-trivial administrative issue is removing people from lists
> automatically when they leave the co-op, either explicitly or by
> ignoring us and refusing to pay. Our current destroy-user script just
> unsubscribes that user's @hcoop.net address from all lists. It would be
> a pain to figure out which subscriptions belong to that user.
>
> In general, I'm willing to go along with whatever policy folks want, as
> long as it doesn't make more work for me. I'm currently the sole person
> creating and destroying accounts, so the subject of this thread does
> affect me.
>
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