Am Dienstag 04 September 2007 schrieb Gerald Pfeifer:
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.
Perhaps gnu.org isn't interesting enough for spammers? I can tell you from my experience as kde.org admin: the more popular the lists, the more spam, the more likely it's subscription only. I can't give you exact numbers though. What I consider _very_ ugly though is that these mails are simply wasted and not moderated or even replied full quote. Right now I have to dig in my sent folder to resend with the correct From header. Greetings, Stephan -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org