Re: [h-e-w] moderation enabled

[David Vanderschel]

On Sunday, December 28, "Bijan Soleymani"
<address@hidden> offered a new bit of dissent regarding
restricting posting to subscribers:
>It would prevent people from posting messages to this
>group from gmane without also subscribing to the list
>(which would kind of defeat the purpose of gmane). 

"The" purpose?  As I read the FAQ there, it is not at
all unusual that a given list be set up as read-only
for non list members.

(For me personally, the most significant "purpose" of
GMANE is that material posted to certain mailing lists
is now showing up in searches at Google.)

>Of course this wouldn't be a problem if it were
>possible to subscribe to the list but not receive
>messages (some mailing lists allow this, especially
>ones that can be accessed in a different way, gmane
>or web archives, etc.). 

But it is possible!  Visit this page:

    http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/options/help-emacs-windows

and log in with the email address and password you are
using for the list.  There are great many options
there for customizing your subscription - the very
first of which allows you to disable email delivery.

>I think that having this option would be nice for
>non-gmane users as well in certain situations.

Rejoice!
  David V.