Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:49:56 -0600 (CST) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> | Subject | Re: [ANN] new mailing list |
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On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Shaw Carruthers wrote: > > > > > Make it an automatically moderated newsgroup. Only subscribers to > > linux-kernel can post. > > > > This can be done automatically: posts get forwarded to the moderator which > > is a bot which checks the posting host against the list of subscribers. > > > > Quite a few newsgroups run like this. > > That still leaves open the possibillity of email address harvesting, and > that seems a lot more common a problem than posting spam directly to > the list.
The real problem with going to a newsgroup is not a technical one. The problem is that readers don't scale. While it may be ok for some people to just skim the list and read only the subjects, other people such as Alan and the IDE maintainers, etc., end up reading a lot more of the traffic than the rest of us, just to keep on top of the stuff they need to. They don't scale to the size of a newsgroup.
The fix might be to create a better bug-tracking infrastructure. Can we bring Jitterbug back? Can we use it just for bugs rather than tracking patches? Directing most questions there might get rid of many of the more frequently asked questions.
Email addresses are already harvested and you can just assume they will be on any popular forum. -- "Love the dolphins," she advised him. "Write by W.A.S.T.E.."
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