[Mailman-Developers] Self-Approve Link in Member-Only error messages

[Dan MacNeil]

> Am Mittwoch, den 24.01.2007, 20:13 -0500 schrieb Dan MacNeil:
>> Joachim Breitner wrote:
>>> Alternatively, a message to a members-only mailing list could
>>> automatically trigger a subscribe challenge that, if acted upon, not
>>> only subscribes the sender, but also approves the held-back message.

Dan writes:
>> I often miss stuff but near as I can tell this would be a bad thing. Joe
>> Job/backscatter wise.

[examples snipped]

> Joachim writes:
> Currently, Joe would get N messages telling him that he is not
> subscribed. If he marks these as spam we get the same result, don’t we?
> Thus adding a “self-approve mail” link or a “subscribe” link to this
> message this scenario is not any more likely.

Is this is true if the moderator has  clicked "Discard" rather than
"Hold" or "Reject" ?

If not, I'd argue the current setup is imperfect.