Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Aug 2007 22:33:16 +0200 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PS3: Update MAINTAINERS |
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On 08/21/2007 10:17 PM, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Rene Herman wrote: >> On 08/21/2007 10:01 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> The reason it is being held: >>> >>> Post by non-member to a members-only list >> That means it's not a subcriber-only list -- the message wasn't rejected, >> just subjected to moderation. >> > > So maybe it would be more precise to have something like this: > > -L: cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org > +L: cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org (moderated)
Perhaps. In these spamridden days, mailinglists that don't have the kind of (human and other) resources behind them that linux-kernel has basically have the choice between drowning in spam, becoming subscriber only or moderate non-subscribers and of these, that third option is "best among the bad".
alsa-devel for example also went this route -- the spam levels simply weren't tolerable anymore for any subscriber and the list was dying as a result. Moderation sucks, but subcriber-only sucks even worse (generally, and/but even more so for lists that expect crossposts from linux-kernel) so what's a small-time list to do.
Moderation takes some effort so the lists that moderate have made the explicit choice to not become subscriber-only. While subscriber-only certainly is useful to mention alongside the list address itself, I'm not too sure mentioning moderation makes a great deal of sense actually -- if all's well, the moderator will simply approve it and you don't have to deal with it other than that.
Rene.
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