Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:13:08 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Tilman_Keskin=c3=b6z?= <arved@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The ports@ list is now subscriber-post only Message-ID: <97d69ead-2627-2ad6-2211-b5387654df95@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <2E4558AF-E197-4DC4-A8AB-E3742EDC7E23@FreeBSD.org> References: <2E4558AF-E197-4DC4-A8AB-E3742EDC7E23@FreeBSD.org>
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On 12/09/2017 17:27, 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. I must be living in a parallel universe, checking https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2017-December/thread.html there has been one (1) spam message getting through so far this month. That's a really tremendous amount of spam. > * 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. Is a moderator ensuring that messages from unsubscribed users, who just sent a mail to the maintainer of an unmaintained port get through? Otherwise we will probably miss a lot of bug reports from Users who don't bother to subscribe.
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