From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 13 8:25:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB17F37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:25:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D51B43EB2 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:25:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from rev208-187-98-122.wolsi.com ([208.187.98.122] helo=mindspring.com) by puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18Mscx-0000S7-00; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:25:27 -0800 Message-ID: <3DFA09A2.C5B0103B@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:24:02 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: delphij@hotmail.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I post a pr when my IP can't be reverse-resolved? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a455d76b880b3a28e4bae0a230fb04b42b350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "=F6=CE =C0=EE" wrote: [ ... Subject: ... ] You can't. The method I was about to start using was to post the patch to the mailing list, and then use the web send-pr to send the PR with a URL for the patch in the mailing list archives. This won't work because they disabled the web send-pr. I think the reason this was disable is some idiot was posting a lot of PR's that were not really PR's, and then filling in the mailing lists as "contact" (or whatever). I saw a lot of these right before they disable it. Probably, the correct thing would be to accept the submission, and pend it for review, before it became active as a real PR. This would require that a human look at the pending PRs, and make a decision. Instead, what happened was the web submission form was disabled, letting whoever was trying to poison the ability to report problems win. Not very satisfying to me, either, since a lot of people are "PR-blind" to patches posted to the mailing list. Maybe you could also ask them to reenable web send-pr, as I did. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message