On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:32:44PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: >cgf wrote: >>cygwin-apps is a... wait for it... mailing list. It is a *moderated* >>mailing list. It is moderated for a reason. Having it moderated for >>email and not moderated for anyone who figured out how to use gmane has >>already been shown to be a bad idea. I don't want a back door method >>for people to send their bug reports and package requests to this list. > >But so is cygwin-patches, and gmane *can* post to cygwin-patches!
1) I didn't know that. 2) cygwin-patches hasn't (yet) been abused by people who send off-topic email. If it is abused, then I'll request similar blocking from gmane. >gmane requires a legitimate email address before posting, and >therefore gmane will not allow an unsubscribe user to post to >a moderated list. A person who registered via gmane to read gmane.comp.accessibility.vision does not automatically qualify as a person who should be able to send email to cygwin-apps. >The difference is whether gmane is set up as a one-way list (as is >cygwin-apps) or a moderated list (as is cygwin-patches). All I was >asking is that gmane be told that cygwin-apps can be treated like >cygwin-patches, instead of a one-way list. But I can also live with >the status quo, there is no need to do this just because I asked if you >don't want to. I requested the one-way aspect of this gmane forum and would have taken more draconian steps on sourceware.org if this option wasn't available. cgf