From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 14 16:38:15 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 2A44A37B401; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:38:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-232-220-15.client.attbi.com [12.232.220.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EFE443ED4; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:38:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBF0c7nZ013142; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:38:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gBF0c4c0013141; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:38:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu) Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:38:03 -0800 From: David Schultz To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Wes Peters , Terry Lambert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How can I post a pr when my IP can't be reverse-resolved? Message-ID: <20021215003803.GA13126@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mail-Followup-To: Giorgos Keramidas , Wes Peters , Terry Lambert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3DFA09A2.C5B0103B@mindspring.com> <3DFB13B9.B185DCD0@softweyr.com> <20021214122121.GA16263@gothmog.gr> <20021214210507.GA12180@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20021215002117.GB5083@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021215002117.GB5083@gothmog.gr> 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 Thus spake Giorgos Keramidas : > Email is easier to track though. And measures *can* be taken. > Anyway, I'm not entirely against moderation for PRs submitted through > email too. Right now, this is not one of my problems though. My most > serious concern is implementing something that makes moderation > possible, and not choosing whether it be used for email only or web > only or both. Assuming that all committers can approve PRs, the delay ought to be a few hours at best, and that's acceptable. What's not acceptable is to use the feature as a quality control mechanism, rather than as an abuse-control mechanism. Otherwise, you would be making the system closed, and at that point we might as well be writing the next version of Solaris or Windows. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message