We had a list on Yahoogroups that allowed unrestricted posting (posts by non-members and unmoderated), for that same reason, to allow folks to ask questions.? Now, we simply allow non-members to post to our IO list, but then each of those posts have to be approved.? It's not that big a deal, of course we don't get a ton of non-member postings either.? Any of the moderators or owners can simply go to Groups.io and approve it.? One click.? It's worked fine for us, and I still would move from the dysfunctional Yahoo lists to IO in a heartbeat, if I had to decide again.
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On 2019-01-11 11:54 AM, Bill Sherman wrote:
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Thank you for taking the time to lay it out for us, though I am not really sure how "if the service?gains a reputation for delivering spam messages" could happen -- WE would be the ones allowing unmoderated emails to this list, and WE would be the ones to take action (such as adding in moderation or changing the address or whatever we needed to do) if we were ever to be hit with spam.? And, as I indicated, we haven't been spammed more than a couple of times in our 12 years of operation on prior systems.
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"We" would never contribute to a gaining reputation for allowing spam delivery that we had deliberately?risked allowing...? I understand caution, but it seems like it is caution for fear of something that could not happen.? I sure wish we had discovered way, way in advance of moving all of our hundreds of families over to that there was no way to support this "experts list" kind of address.? It is an absolute showstopper for us, and one which will now cause us to uproot the organization (a Boy Scout unit with hundreds of addresses) and move off of to a different system.? Sigh.
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If I could put in my $0.02 as a suggestion that might save other organizations this hassle in the future -- please consider allowing this option.? There really is no downside risk, if it is appropriately caveated. You could shroud it in all kinds of warnings about ill-advised configurations and such -- but a hard and fast rule that protects my expert list from what they need is enough to drive them away.? And it is too bad because in every, and I mean every other way this system was perfect for us.
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Thanks,
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