On 12/9/2017 3:13 PM, Tilman Keskinöz wrote: > On 12/09/2017 17:27, Adam Weinberger wrote: >> The po...@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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >
Even ports with maintainers have a CC for ports@ in the email links at https://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html. -- Douglas William Thrift <http://douglasthrift.net/> _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"