Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > With [EMAIL PROTECTED] we didn't have any problem with spam, since it's > > subscriber-only. If help-grub is made subscriber-only as well, we can > > avoid the spam too.
It would certainly be inconvenient to users if they needed to subscribe in order to post bug reports. > I think, bug-* and help-* have been traditionally open to > non-subscribers. You are correct. Traditionally those have been open to non-subscribers. This makes it easy for users to submit bug reports. Submitting bug reports has always been encouraged. The boilerplate documentation asks users to submit bug reports to the bug-* addresses. I think if a user needed to subscribe the number of users that would actually subscribe to send in bug reports would be dramatically reduced. I doubt if *I* would subscribe to post a bug report. > As far as I see, Information For Maintainers of GNU Software does > not mention any rule about how open contacts should be. So I guess > it is acceptable to make the list writable only for subscribers, > although it would be surely inconvenient for the user who just wants > to ask one question. I think it would be unfortunate if bug-grub were different from the other bug-* mailing lists and required subscription to post. I strongly recommend going with the flow and doing the same thing that the other bug-* mailing lists are doing. Bob
