From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Dec 9 23:13:27 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 025C9E9B45F for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 23:13:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arved@FreeBSD.org) Received: from nar.arved.priv.at (nar.arved.priv.at [IPv6:2a03:f80:ed15:149:154:152:90:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "arved.priv.at", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 787827958A for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2017 23:13:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arved@FreeBSD.org) Received: from nihayet.local.arved.priv.at (80-110-73-206.cgn.dynamic.surfer.at [80.110.73.206]) (authenticated bits=0) by nar.arved.priv.at (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id vB9NDEq7097564 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:13:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from arved@FreeBSD.org) Subject: Re: The ports@ list is now subscriber-post only To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <2E4558AF-E197-4DC4-A8AB-E3742EDC7E23@FreeBSD.org> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Tilman_Keskin=c3=b6z?= Organization: arved@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <97d69ead-2627-2ad6-2211-b5387654df95@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 00:13:08 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2E4558AF-E197-4DC4-A8AB-E3742EDC7E23@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 23:13:27 -0000 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.