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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] mailinglist write access for non-subscribers
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Cc: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, Xenomai <xenomai@xenomai.org>

On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 20:55:33 +0100
Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:

> 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.

But i guess you filter out spam before mail enters mailman, hence the
low moderation effort.

> 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
>