Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (89 mails)

[Cristian Rodriguez <crrodriguez@xxxxxxx>]

Henne Vogelsang escribió:

> That might be true for those lists. But this is not true in general.
> Most of the major FOSS mailinglists are subscribers only.

IMHO if you want to participate or contribute in a project, the very
minimun effort that the user should take is subscribing to a list, not
willing to do so denotes a lack of interest.


>> Frankly, with unfriendly a reponse like this, I usually think twice
>> about contributing.
> 
> Could you please state whats unfriendly in that response? 

I think there is nothing unfriendly.


>> 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.
> 
> So self moderation? What use would that be?

Not to mention that writting a bot in PHP to bypass this highly
questionable method should not take more than an hour ;)



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Cristian Rodríguez R.
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH
Research & Development
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