[R] R-help going to become "subscriber-only"

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "DM" == Dieter Menne <dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de>
>>>>>     on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:58:54 +0000 (UTC) writes:

    DM> Martin Maechler <maechler <at> stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:
    >> 
    >> The consequence of this will be that .. before the weekend ..
    >> only __e-mail addresses__ subscribed to R-help will be allowed to post to
    >> R-help without any moderation, and we are even considering outright
    >> rejection all non-subscribers, these latter decision coming
    >> later.

    DM> Does that mean that posting through the gmain/nabble pathway will no longer be
    DM> possible?

If you are *subscribed* to R-help, there definitely won't be a
problem.
Otherwise, such posting may have to wait for moderator approval,
but I think that maybe could be changed to work automatically
{at least as long as the spammers don't misuse it}.

Martin