Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (89 mails)

[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 03 September 2007 15:11, 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.

What - exactly - is "unfriendly" about the message?  I've been on various 
mailing lists since the '80s and have never noticed this list as being any 
more or less friendly than other subscriber-only lists.


>
> 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.

Considering you have a novell.com on your email, why don't you go talk to 
someone in your organization. It IS your list, after all.  We're just the end 
users.


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kai ponte
www.perfectreign.com
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