[Peace] emails

[Karen Medina]

>2. Close off the peace and/or peace-discuss lists to 
postings from people who aren't subscribed to the list.

I am surprised number 2 is not already done. Jumping through 
hoops to join, and joining in order to participate is the 
norm for other lists. While Randall mentioned the down side 
of this being that outsiders cannot post a timely event, how 
often does that happen? And for those who manage two email 
addresses, they are probably computer savvy enough to 
register both email addresses.

-karen medina

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:19:57 -0600
>From: "Randall Cotton" <recotton at earthlink.net>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace] emails  
>To: <Peace at lists.chambana.net>
>
>>2. Close off the peace and/or peace-discuss lists to 
postings from people who aren't subscribed to the list.
>
>This is easy to configure, but has the significant drawback 
of, well, closing>off the list to folks. Many people who 
attempt to post, say, a timely>announcement or call to action 
regarding local peace and justice issues will be
>thwarted from doing so. If they're force to jump through the 
hoop of having to>figure out how to subscribe to our list, 
they may not (and often, in practice,>will not) bother to try 
to navigate that obstacle and as a result, we are>deprived of 
some important postings.
>
>In addition, this also forces all current subscribers to 
explicitly re-subscribe>from *all* the e-mail addresses they 
might send from. Often, folks send from>more than one 
different e-mail address (say one from work and one from 
home).>Once the list is closed off, any post from an address 
that hasn't been>explicitly subscribed will be flat out 
rejected. This in itself will be a>confusing inconvenience to 
many.