Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (89 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:11:03AM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> The openSUSE mailing lists do not strike me as particularly open.
> 
> I have been contributing to free software projects for over ten years,
> but none I can remember appears as unfriendly when someone not subscribed
> to a list tries to post to that list.
> 
> Why do we have such a strict setup?  As evidenced by hosts like 
> gcc.gnu.org, it is possibly to keep lists spam free without it.
> 
> *If* we need such a form of moderation, could this be human
> moderators?  Frankly, with unfriendly a reponse like this, I
> usually think twice about contributing.
> 
> If human moderation does not work, how about a simple scheme where
> one has to follow a URL provided in the auto-response to unlock his
> previously sent message?  w3c does this very nicely, for example.
> 
> Also, the message refers to a "nomail version of the list" but a
> regular user certainly will have not idea whatsoever what that is
> and how to subscribe to that version of the list.
> </rant>
> 
> My recommendations are:
> 
>  1. Abandon this level of strictness and instead use decent spam
>     and virus filtering.

This does not help, as I see with the gphoto mailinglists.
 
>  2. If this does not work sufficiently well, employ human moderation
>     or a challenge/reponse schema.

>  3. Better describe what the "nomail version of the list" refers to.


I am using "subscriber only, but hold postings in the mailman queue
for approval and author whitelisting" for gphoto at least, and it works
fine.

Ciao, Marcus
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