[BALUG-Admin] "automatically" subscribe to BALUG-Announce if ... - various descriptive updates, etc.
Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com
Wed Aug 16 10:45:02 PDT 2017
Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu):
> Basic idea is if one is subscribed to BALUG-Talk and/or BALUG-Admin,
> but not BALUG-Announce, one gets subscribed to BALUG-announce ...
> but there's also an exception process if one really doesn't want that.
I continue to think this is a blunder.
Autosubscribing people to mailing lists is going to get BALUG in
trouble, one day. It[1] is widely considered an egregious violation of
netiquette and gets domains on DNS blocklists.
[1] 'It' meaning subscribing anyone to an MLM without the standard
three-way confirmation process or close equivalent.
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