Spec for Edgy: Community Communication

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 20:20 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 14:04 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 19:58 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > > I have found only one advantage to the web forums: you can post as a
> > > guest, that's practical when you have infrequent questions. 
> > 
> > This can work for mailing lists too with aggressive spam filtering.  The
> > linux-kernel list is open to non-subscribers, gets more traffic than all
> > the Ubuntu lists combined and gets very little spam.
> 
> 
> Just out of curiosity (since I don't know how it would work) : assuming
> I post something to such a mailing list, will I get flooded with 500
> mails as soon as my question hits the list (and then how do I stop the
> flow... since I am not subscribe, I can't UNsubscribe ! :-O ), or is the
> list server clever enough to only send me mails from the thread I
> created ?

It's not handled by the list server - everyone uses "Reply to All" for
all responses, so if you're not subscribed you only get the replies to
your thread.

If you are subscribed this means you will get two copies but this is
easily solved by filtering the list mail into its own folder, or using a
mail client that can delete duplicate messages.  It has the advantage
that you see the replies immediately without having to wait for it to go
out to the list.

Lee