Santiago, On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:59:26PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Draft. Comments welcome. Please Cc the list, not me. > - The public web archives of the different debian mailing lists, past, > present and future, will be processed so that it becomes impossible > for an ordinary user not having special privileges to mail someone who > posted something to any debian list. > > The natural way of obtaining this privilege will be to subscribe to those > lists and receive messages from subscribers, but the debian project may > implement other alternative methods to gain this privilege. No, I want to send mail to lists even if I am not subscribed. > We will encourage other debian list archives to mirror us, and forbid > debian archives which do not hide addresses. No, I want my debian email adress copy-and-paste'able. > - The Debian source package format will be modified so that .dsc > and .changes files do not need to have the complete email of the > maintainer, only his name and gpg signature. No, I want my email adress publicly available so that people can mail me easily. > - The public web pages and ftp archives will be modified so that it > becomes impossible for someone without special privileges to know the > actual email address of the individual package maintainers. It should > still be possible to mail someone at "package@packages.debian.org", > but no such addresses will be present on web pages. No, I want people to mail me about my packages without "special privileges". > The natural way of obtaining this privilege will be to have a Debian > system in one's machine and simply looking at the available file > in /var/lib/dpkg or looking at the different changelogs, but but the > debian project may implement other alternative methods to gain this > privilege. No, this is not user-friendly. > - There will be no mail to news gateway having email addresses in clear. > Any such existing gateway will be forbidden by list policy, which > subscribers should accept if they subscribe. If this is not doable, > everything will be unsubscribed and everybody should write "yes, I > accept" before subscribing again. No, I want people reading news being able to see my email adress too. > - Being able to post is a privilege, not a right. The natural way of > obtaining this privilege, for so called "open" lists, is by subscribing > to them and using the same address in the From: field, or by using > an email addresses which has been previously subscribed to a special > white list. No, no, no. This "your from: adress is wrong"-stuff has bitten my before at some fucked up mailing lists. > No other mail will reach the lists until it's approved by a moderator This one would be nice, but moderating high-traffic lists is a burden. I would not want to do this. > If there are no moderators for a given list, these mails will go to > /dev/null (so to speak). No, no dropping of emails. So, I said pretty much no for all of the above. Why? Because you leave no options left. Email filtering must be optional, not enforced. I use my own filtering rules and I am happy. Cheers, -- Bastian
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