Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...

["Steve Lamb" <grey@dmiyu.org>]

> You've been around long enough to know how things work.  You know the
> project has a policy of open, non-moderated mailing lists.

    Yup.  And I've made it well known I think it is a pretty dumb policy for
the reasons stated.

> You also know
> that to change that policy you need to convince either the lists-masters or
> the project as a whole.  Abusing the lists-masters on -user won't help.

    Yes, it does.  As I told Anand a person who approaches them in private
has their voice squelched in private.  A person who brings it out in
public and gets support from other people in public can start a
snow-ball effect of even greater public support.

    It's real easy to ignore a single voice in private.  It's a lot harder
to ignore many voices in a public forum.

> Seriously, how much spam are you getting from debian-user?

    On a good day, about as equal to what makes it through my filters to my
inbox.  On a bad day d-u is the major contributor to the spam that makes
it through my filters.

> Personally I like the fact that people can post from accounts which aren't
> subscribed.  It's very convenient to be able to add a cc to another list to
> get an opinion on a issue from a specialised list.  It makes it much easier
> to cope with debians 141 active lists[0].

    Granted.  So the question then becomes can there be a mechanism provided
that would allow such posts without open lists?  For example allow
linked posting rights based on subscription to *a* mailing list hosted
at lists.debian.org if not the specific list being posted to?

-- 
Steve Lamb