Re: Please think and test before setting a mailing list as "Maintainer:"

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@tikei.de> writes:

> What about ordinary users who report bugs for packages with
> members-only Alioth lists as the Maintainer: address?

Those lists are configured inappropriately. The Maintainer email
address should accept email messages from anyonei, to avoid exactly
that problem. If that's a mailing list, the same applies.
<URL:http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/PackagingProject#head-81024e1029fe37a8a12a7940ca799050f97bb275>

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