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Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...



Steve Lamb wrote:
> Mike McCarty said:
> 
>>I proposed a change in order to prevent such posts. I propose that
>>messages which come from non-subscribed aliases be rejected from the
>>list.
> 
> 
>     This has been asked for and rejected for the past several years.  On
> many things Debian is sensible.  On this Debian is downright negligent
> and utterly stupid.  Want to know the reason why it isn't implemented?
> 
>     Because maybe, somewhere, someone who's looking for support is going to
> somehow figure out how to set up Debian, get it online, get it sending
> and receiving mail yet be utterly incapable of filling out the webform
> to subscribe to the mailing list to receive help in order to.... set up
> Debian, get it online, get it sending and receiving mail.
> 
>     Yeah, head explosion time right there.
> 

The issue likely has more to do with the volume of mails to the list.
Aside from lkml, I can't think of a busier list.  It is nice for a user
to be able to post without having to let his inbox be inundated with d-u
mail.

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

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