From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Dec 9 16:53:25 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B10B6E91317 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 16:53:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamw@FreeBSD.org) Received: from apnoea.adamw.org (apnoea.adamw.org [104.225.5.94]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "apnoea.adamw.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21FF56C6C5 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 16:53:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamw@FreeBSD.org) Received: by apnoea.adamw.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 001dbf66 TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 09:53:23 -0700 (MST) From: Adam Weinberger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.2 \(3445.5.20\)) Subject: Re: The ports@ list is now subscriber-post only Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 09:53:22 -0700 References: <2E4558AF-E197-4DC4-A8AB-E3742EDC7E23@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD Ports ML In-Reply-To: <2E4558AF-E197-4DC4-A8AB-E3742EDC7E23@FreeBSD.org> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.5.20) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 16:53:25 -0000 > On 9 Dec, 2017, at 9:27, Adam Weinberger wrote: > > The ports@FreeBSD.org (aka freebsd-ports@) mailing list now requires you > to subscribe to the list before posting. This brings us two important > benefits: > > * This should cut back tremendously on spam coming through the list. > > * Users are more likely to find better answers to their questions: The > first three times a question is asked, it gets detailed replies. The > fourth through nth times usually get a one sentence reply. > > This ONLY affects sending messages to the list. It does NOT affect: > - Receiving messages or replies > - Viewing the archives > (https://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html) > - Searching the archives > > If you have any questions about this, don't hesitate to ask! From dhw: I'll pass along a tip that I just sent to postmaster@: in the past (for other lists @FreeBSD.org), some folks have subscribed to receive the list mail at some address, but tried to post from a different address. To mitigate that, my suggestion has usually been for the affected folks to *also* subscribe for the "posting" address, but use Mailman facilities to set that subscription to "nomail." -- Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org