Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964852AbWHHLlV (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 07:41:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964862AbWHHLlV (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 07:41:21 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:18515 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964852AbWHHLlU (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Aug 2006 07:41:20 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GJTQhdZ2zojorOHGBU8TnFyeCto9l9avMie0eoTqehMTiMS2xMqU9Dm6UXMt0yfgJ5qwHOILmUoZUinhY4N4PM1lNmSr0tLCWyidyWvDPB7xLDn+lotli7cJqI7M0MwaBYImitrGmvumYOMroRUysZb3waGo9fn+a9li/ZdaTBE= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 15:41:15 +0400 From: "Alexey Zaytsev" To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: Re: Time to forbid non-subscribers from posting to the list? In-Reply-To: <17624.29292.673708.654588@cse.unsw.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <17624.29292.673708.654588@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1891 Lines: 42 On 8/8/06, Neil Brown wrote: > On Tuesday August 8, alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com wrote: > > Hello, list. > > > > What are the objections to makeing lkml and other lists at vget > > subscribers-only? > > Yes. Many. I think this is in the FAQ. (hhmm.. just looked, it isn't exactly). > > > Non-subscribers messages could still be allowed after moderation. > > I get 1/4 of my spam from lkml, and see no benefit from allowing > > non-subscribers to freely post to the list. If you are not subscribed, > > you just have to wait until your mail gets approved by the moderator, > > and it is not hard to subscribe anyway. > > We want to barrier to posting to be low so that people will post bug > reports. We want to hear about bug reports. really really. > > Were you volunteering to be a moderator? What sort of minimum delay > would you guarantee :-) If we had a large moderators group, we could do mail processing within minutes. I'm not familiar with any mail list systems, is the mail validation done with a web-interface? If we could get incoming traffic delivered to the moderator's mailbox, rather than appear on the web interface, it would be not hard for him to ack/nack certain e-mails. We could even get the traffic split betweem moderators, e.g. one gets N e-mails, afters processing them, he gets an other N e-mails, and if he does not process theese e-mails within M hours, they are sent to an other moderator. But here it's only my imagination, maybe people with some mailing list administration experience could give more ideas. And yes, if the moderators group is large enough, I'm ready to come in. > > NeilBrown > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/