> > We don't lose anything by giving the first two items some > > time to prove their usefullness. On the other hand, it is > > very likely that we will lose useful input, if we implement > > the third item prematurely. > > I disagree. Anyone here can handle replying because we already have the > anti-spam protection. The only thing we're doing is adding to the message > an explanation of the post ethics. > I wouldn't call this drastic at all.
I am not overly confident that the system works though. The problem right now is that we have not been in any way tracking peoples' failed attempts to send something to the addresses currently protected by the system. It is only when a clueful person, like Dirk recently, persisted and emailed me privately with the 3 messages he had tried dilligently to get to us but ultimately failed, that we get a hint that something along the way didn't work. I have no idea if the problem was on our end or on Dirk's end. Dirk knows what the hell he is doing and he said he turned off any spam-catching filters and whatever else might have prevented him from getting the confirmation email he was supposed to reply to in order to verify his emails. Whatever the reason, the system didn't work for him, and who knows how many others it has failed for as well. Dirk was listed in the 'pending' stage meaning supposedly a confirmation email had been sent, but he said he never got it. There are many other addresses listed as pending. I'd like to get a better idea of what happened to Dirk's confirmation email and also whether the other people on the list received such an email. If we are going to deploy this on a much wider scale, before doing so someone has to volunteer to track how it is working currently so we have a sense of whether it works at all and under which circumstances it falls over. Blindly enabling what may or may not be a shaky solution on something as important as php-dev is a very bad idea. -Rasmus -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
