Subject: Re: subscriber-post only (was: Re: wealth)

From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 20:15:45 +0800

> When we discussed the split of pine-info and comp.mail.pine a while
> back, the consensus was to try to shift the pine-info focus toward
> Pine/System administrators and "power users."  At least that was the
> consensus among the Pine Team ;-)  That would seem to make it
> appropriate to put some sort of (low) hurdle between pine-info
> subscribers and joe-random-user....

OK....I understand.  However, I don't think it "practical".  I say that since 
many folks are still using 3.91 and I expect that even a larger portion are using 
and will continue to use 3.96.  The "documentation" that comes with these doesn't 
indicate that the mailing list is for "power" users and if you put the up this 
low hurdle then the newbies don't get serviced.  Unless, of course, you will have 
the listserver sending explict instuctions telling them that they must subscribe 
before they ask.  But, once you do that it is no longer for power users...is it?

Ed

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:59:24 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Ed Greshko wrote:

> before they ask.

Listproc does send back instructions if the sender is not subscribed
to a subscriber-post list.  Currently that text can't be customized on
a per-list basis, but the listproc support guys claim better
customization is coming RSN... 

> But, once you do that it is no longer for power users...is it? 

Admittedly the hurdle is pretty low, but you might be suprised how
many people trip over it ;-)

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