On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:16:28AM -0800, Nicole Zimmerman wrote: > That said, debian-changes is not really a discussion list, so why would > wanting to post to it be a large issue for anyone but people providing > changes -- hopefully people smart enough to change their mailer's from: > field?
All this address checking or mangling isn't necessary, even. The only person/thing that should post to this list is the Debian archive maintenance software, when it installs a new package to stable. It can communicate with the list management software to authenticate itself, using a special header, or something like that. This recent discussion perhaps seems redundant and offtopic to some people, and I agree, however, it can one positive effect -- the listmasters can see that the readership is really interested in them implementing the above solution, which would be an incentive for them to do it. (I guess :) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.