Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:44:11 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Bart Matthaei <bart@dreamflow.nl> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Administrivia: Discussion - Making this list subscriber-only Message-ID: <200208271244.g7RCiBl5019984@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <20020827122623.GC34393@heresy.dreamflow.nl> ; from Bart Matthaei <bart@dreamflow.nl> "Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:26:23 %2B0200." References: <20020827122623.GC34393@heresy.dreamflow.nl>
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> > I would very much like to make this list subscriber-only. This will > > cut down dramatically on spam and the inevitable misdirected > > 'subscribe' postings. The downside is that folks will not be able > > to reply to the list if they receive it via a list redirector (IE > > if a corporate role account/list-alias has been used to subscribe). > > In this case, those folks would become read-only members (which may > > in some cases be OK). Other folks would need to subscribe to the > > list with their 'real' email address. > > I dissagree with the idea of making this list subscriber-only. There > are people who mail to this list with a single question, and without > subscribing to the list. If you make this list subscriber-only, you > are forcing these people to subscribe. I personally hate it when I > have to subscribe to a list when I only have one single report or > question. You are missing the point of the list :-). This is _not_ a questions list. This is a discussions list. If you have a one-off question, there are places to ask it. If you wish to discuss, then there is no problem with subscribing, no? One-off reports fall into 3 categories; 1) bugs, 2) build problems and 3) critical security holes. Each of these has its place in an existing list: 1) bugs (via send-pr), 2) -current or -stable, 3) security-officer. > If you want to get rid of spam, just get a spamfilter, and stop > complaining, because the actual discussion about spam is more annoying > than the spam itself. We already have that. Spammers are very inventive when it comes to evading filters. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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