Re: [Xenomai] mailinglist write access for non-subscribers

From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Xenomai <xenomai@xenomai.org>
Subject: Re: [Xenomai] mailinglist write access for non-subscribers
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 13:37:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160208123757.GC29803@hermes.click-hack.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56B87392.8040703@web.de>

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 11:53:06AM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2016-02-08 10:18, Henning Schild wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:07:02 +0100
> > Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 09:29:41AM +0100, Henning Schild wrote:
> >>> Hey guys,
> >>>
> >>> i have been discussing the huge ioremap problem with the guy that
> >>> wrote the patch-set introducing the problem. And i always had this
> >>> list on CC, unfortunately his replies did not end up on this list
> >>> because he is not subscribed.
> >>>
> >>> Is the list indeed configured like that? And is that not something
> >>> that should be changed?  
> >>
> >> The list is subscriber-only, and this is intentional. It avoids spam.
> > 
> > I personally think an open source community should first care about
> > beeing open and find other ways of dealing with spam, but fair enough.
> 
> FWIW, if we seriously want to work closer with the kernel community,
> this policy should be reconsidered. I know it's additional effort to
> establish some basic spam filters (unless they already exist anyway),
> but there is also quite some value in allowing cross-list postings with
> key communities.

Some kernel mailing lists are "subscriber only" too, probably for
the same reason (the linux arm kernel mailing list for instance).
People have complained about it, but so far it does not seem to be a
problem for the participants to the Linux ARM community.

The spammers know our domain (is there a domain they do not know
anyway), at any time, we have a dozen subscriptions pending with
invalid addresses to lists hosted by xenomai.org. So, if we open the
gates, they are going to use them.

I have no idea how many posts are rejected right now. What we can
propose is to manually moderate the posts by non-subscribers, if
this is too much work, we will revert the change, if it happens that
there is no spam, we will open the list completely.

The xenomai.org domain has some spam filtering already, though I am
not sure the mailing lists do not bypass the spam filtering, before
opening the mailing list, it has to be checked.

Regards.

-- 
					    Gilles.
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