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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org