lists that drop nonmember mail [was gnu-misc-discuss broken?]

[Ian Kelling]

Ian Kelling via RT <address@hidden> writes:

> generic_nonmember_action of discard is quite unfriendly, but if a list
> states it in the list description, there are some valid reasons reasons
> like being a invite only list, or for a list owner/moderator who wants
> to avoid reading as much spam as possible by making everyone subscribe
> first. However, I made a list of all the gnu.org lists with this option,
> and most do not say that in the list description. Some have no list
> description at all. At least some of them, we might want to ask their
> owners to include this fact in the list description, change the option,
> or retire the list, or simply do one of those. Here is all the lists
> with that option:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-announce
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf-prs
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-acm
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-autogen
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-glpk
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnucap
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-jel
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-marst
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-mifluz
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-powerguru
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/commit-gnuradio
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/dominion-discuss
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bug-tracker
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-france
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-france-eval
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-france-gpl
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-newsfr-en
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsffr-oppose
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfstatus
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gg-network
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/global-commit
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnats-diffs
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucap-devel
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnugo-announce
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/health-security
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-3dldf
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-acm
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-autogen
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-glpk
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnucap
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-jel
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-marst
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-3dldf
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnucap
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnunet
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libcvs-spec-dev
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/m4-announce
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/mifluz-dev
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/mit-scheme-announce
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/osip-dev
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-announce
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/radius-commit
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-projects-mentors
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/social

Anyone on this mailman list. What do you think should be done about this
issue?

Ian