Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:25:33 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [patch] maintainers: remove moderated arm list |
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On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:54:38PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:21:55PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > > If we must, I guess it's fine, but I expect *you* to provide the support > > to people to people who don't know where to go for it if *you* remove this. > > I'm sometimes doing patches that cover many files, and I want to Cc the > patches to the developers in question. > > If after sending 10 patches I get 5 "this is a subscribers-only list" > mails, I'm not going to subscribe to 5 lists, forward the patches to > them and unsubscribe again after this (and repeat this if there's some > discussion regarding one of these patches). > > In my experience, the best solution is a list policy that allows > subscribers to post and requires moderator approval for non-members. > This policy that is already used by several lists listed in MAINTAINERS > is IMHO a good compromise between avoiding spam and allowing > non-subscribers to post to the list.
Well, that's precisely what happens with these lists - your post ends up in the moderator approval queue. They do generally find their way from there into the appropriate peoples mailboxes (iow, mine).
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