Re: Problems writing to clisp mailing list

Rob Thorpe wrote: 
Cameron MacKinnon wrote:

Good grief, what a bunch of feebs must run that list! 

It's normal these days to have to subscribe to a list before you can
post to it.
You get this message when you're not subscribed.

If that's the standard error message these days, we've regressed. I can remember a time when the error message one received in that situation was appropriate and informative. And you'll never get me to accept that lying to legitimate posters is appropriate behaviour, regardless.


Mailing lists that do not follow this practice are deluged with spam. 

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

Works great! Invented here! So sad to see people suggesting (in the FAQ) that the two alternatives are the computer indiscriminately lying to people or people doing drudgework which computers can demonstrably do as well or better.
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