Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> writes: > I hope we can agree that maintainers should be able to receive mail from > any legitimate sender.
> However, some maintainer addresses point to mailing lists that > automatically reject mail from non-subscribers (without the intervention > of a moderator). The case I am painfully aware of is > [email protected], listed as the maintainer for grub > and grub2. > I believe this configuration is unacceptable, but would like to check > that there is a consensus on this before pressing the matter with the > GRUB maintainers. I agree that automatic rejection is bad. I do think that holding for moderation is okay. The configuration that I use for pkg-shibboleth-devel is to automatically allow any message with X-Debian-PR-Package or X-Debian: DAK in the headers and then hold everything else from non-subscribers for moderation, expiring messages after seven days, and disabling the moderation notification messages to the sender. I then review every message held for moderation through my own spam filters and go and approve anything that's legitimate, whitelisting the sender at the same time. I set an expiration time of 7 days for things in the moderation queue so that I don't have to keep going in there and cleaning it out. I also always use discard for things that time out or things that I reject. This seems to minimize the annoying nag mail while still getting rid of the spam (which, before I started doing this, caused several people to constantly get unsubscribed from the list since their ISPs rejected spam mail that Alioth let through). I think it's particularly important to automatically let through BTS messages (X-Debian-PR-Package) and messages from automated archive processes. Spam from those sources is extremely low. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
