Re: [Mailman-owner] Request to mailing list svlug rejected

[Rick Moen <http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick>]

Quoting robert b (http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert):

> Sorry again for wasting your time.

No worries.  Also, it seems to have actually been my error:

> I pasted in the lists below from the http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/
> page.  I had thought that "svlug" was the general discussion board, but
> your rejection of my message (see below) seemed to indicate that it
> wasn't.

Oops!  I _thought_ you posted to 'http://www.lists.svlug.org/~jobs', not to
'http://www.lists.svlug.org/~svlug', but I guess I saw the reference to 'jobs' and
assumed you were posting to the Jobs mailing list.  Sorry about that;
I'm a little short on sleep and seem to have erred.

'Jobs' is a moderated mailing list for job-offered listings only.
'SVLUG' is SVLUG's unmoderated general-discussion mailing list, to which
anyone may post from any subscribed address without impediment.  I infer
that you must not have subscribed before posting, hence your post was
put into the Mailman admin queue, where I rejected it thinking it was
for the Jobs mailing list, which holds _all_ messages.

In 2011, hardly any mailing list permits postings from non-subscribed
addresses on account of the spam problem.  You're most welcome to post
freely to 'http://www.lists.svlug.org/~svlug', but you'll need to subscribe your
address first. 

If I'd correctly realised your posting was for http://www.lists.svlug.org/~svlug, I
still would have rejected it -- with a very polite note saying please
subscribe first and then re-post the same message.

> I also looked on "Links" (http://www.svlug.org/farm.php ) and I cannot
> find any particular general discussion board/mailing list/forum/group on
> there.

You will find links to various other Linux (and related topics) user groups, 
many of which have discussion mailing lists.  You will also find a link
to BALE, a central location for finding such things.