[HCoop-Discuss] Mailing list subscription policies

[Scott Bailey]

Here is my suggestion:

Improve the documentation so new members have better awareness of the
mailing lists and policies.

That would have helped me.

SB

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:06 AM, kattla <kattla at hcoop.net> wrote:

> 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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Scott Bailey
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