Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:24:02 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: delphij@hotmail.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How can I post a pr when my IP can't be reverse-resolved? Message-ID: <3DFA09A2.C5B0103B@mindspring.com>
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"=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
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