From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bug tracker spam Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:02:59 -0400 Message-ID: <32ej4iwe30.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <018wur1m63.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219334925 30191 80.91.229.12 (21 Aug 2008 16:08:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:08:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 21 18:09:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KWCid-00025O-ML for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:09:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35719 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWChg-0000RR-6z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:08:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWCe9-00063I-4E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWCe7-00062c-IH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:04:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39519 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWCe7-00062Y-Cs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:04:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:54609) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KWCe7-0007yx-1Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:04:23 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KWCcm-0004OQ-1L; Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:03:00 -0400 X-Spook: brigand smuggle lynch Leitrim Baranyi HAMASMOIS Iran X-Ran: g+o.tI_\/qN|z%D~[yT07l)5Gy1amun>~uB}_P6~kRp*yqt4IH1E2XZ%QDj#MN&7l;&mT_ X-Hue: black X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:102781 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Human moderation works mainly by holding mail from non-subcribers. > This is a good policy for a regular mailing list, where anyone who > wants to participate in discussions can simply subscribe to the list. > But for a bug-tracker gateway, this is IMO not a very good idea, > because someone who wants to report a bug won't normally consider > subscribing, as from her point of view reporting a bug is doing us a > favor. Yes, and you can replace "bug-tracker" with "bug mailing list" above and nothing changes. > Thus, implementing your suggestion might potentially become a > significant burden on the moderator due to a large volume of held > messages that the moderator would need to review. I'm not asking for the list to be moderated if it isn't already. If it is being moderated, let's make more efficient use of the work someone is so kindly doing; by using it at zero extra effort to keep spam out of the tracker.