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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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