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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 20:55:33 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] mailinglist write access for non-subscribers
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To: Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>
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Dear Henning,

In message <20160208140259.66e5dc7f@md1em3qc> you wrote:
>
> > 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.

I can comment a bit on this; my experience comes from the U-Boot
mailing list, which currently has some 2,800+ subscribers, and usually
way over 100 messages per day.

> I doubt anyone would want to be a manual non-spam-filter. Without
> checking we can assume there is way more spam than content, even
> talking about all the list-traffic.

U-Boot has always been a subcriber-only list.  The number of messages
that get caught for moderation is small enough that it is not a
time-consuming task.

Please note that the moderator has many options, including to
permanently ACK addresses, so if cross-posting from for example LKML
should be a problem, you can always just permanently ACK  such
addresses when they get stuck in moderation for upon the first
posting.  This is minimal work, and the poster does not have to
subscribe.

Our experience with moderation has always been positive, and we never
really considered to turn this off.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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