On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 07:58:09PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > > The main reason is that you avoid bothering people whose mails are > > obviously not spam with needing to subscribe to a mailing list simply > > to communicate with the maintainer. > > Why would they need a mailing list for that?
Many packages use mailing lists as their Maintainer. Currently, in order to send mail to pkg-grub-devel (and probably some other maintainers) your mail has to either match one of the alioth whitelist rules [AFAIK, currently restricted to Debian-related daemon messages], or be subscribed to the mailing list. An alternative would be to make sure that [email protected] always went through, I suppose, even if the mailing list was moderated. Regardless, we probably should have this discussion out in -policy or -project for starters, and try to reach consensus there with a wider audience. I'm going to try to start it and feed it there. Don Armstrong -- The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. -- Douglas Adams _Mostly Harmless_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
