Re: Question regarding maintainer email

2006-10-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:16:52 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah. And if you get a lot of spam to the list, using the listadmin script make it a lot easier to process through the moderation requests. One of the list I moderate get 200 spam a day, and I would never have been

Re: Question regarding maintainer email

2006-10-20 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-10-17 09:33]: Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something I have yet to understand is what purposes the bounce [from a moderated list] serve in the first place. Moderating is OK, but bouncing ? I read many mailing lists (this one, for

Re: Question regarding maintainer email

2006-10-20 Thread Matthias Julius
Rafael Laboissiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As regards bouncing, we recognize that receiving an automated message is not the suitable behavior. On the other hand, not receiving anything and not seeing the message in the list archives is even worse. We decided then to suppress bouncing and

Re: Question regarding maintainer email

2006-10-20 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Rafael Laboissiere] Moderating has the great advantage of reducing spam in the list. Yeah. And if you get a lot of spam to the list, using the listadmin script make it a lot easier to process through the moderation requests. One of the list I moderate get 200 spam a day, and I would never

Re: Question regarding maintainer email

2006-10-17 Thread Tino Keitel
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:33:04 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something I have yet to understand is what purposes the bounce [from a moderated list] serve in the first place. Moderating is OK, but bouncing ? I read many mailing lists (this one, for

Question regarding maintainer email

2006-10-16 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi, I have a question according maintainer email contact addresses: A group of packages have a - well - kind of private email list. But if reporting bugs, for example, you get a kind of bounce, which is quite annoying: (shows also up in the bug tracking system) --- quote --- Your mail to ...

Re: Question regarding maintainer email

2006-10-16 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 07:51:04PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: My question, is, if this is ok with the debian packaging policy chapter 3.3, or not (that is should I file a bug?) It is not considered acceptable. It's the default settings on alioth, and instructions on how to fix them are posted

Re: Question regarding maintainer email

2006-10-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:36:39PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 07:51:04PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: My question, is, if this is ok with the debian packaging policy chapter 3.3, or not (that is should I file a bug?) It is not considered acceptable. It's the

Re: Question regarding maintainer email

2006-10-16 Thread Ben Finney
Bill Allombert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something I have yet to understand is what purposes the bounce [from a moderated list] serve in the first place. Moderating is OK, but bouncing ? I read many mailing lists (this one, for example) without being subscribed as a member. An automated