Bug#871534: debian-policy: Clarify whether mailing lists in Maintainers/Uploaders may be moderated
On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 08:06:46PM -0400, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> > How do you define "moderated" ?
>
> I can't really, sorry. I guess getting a "Your message awaits moderator
> approval" quasi-bounce… but that's not exactly right.
If the list is moderated correctly, the message will get through
fast enough that such quasi-bounce are useless and just an annoying
distraction.
Unfortunately, sending quasi-bounce is the default choice when setting
a moderated list on alioth.
We should relly discourage it independently of moderation.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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