Re: [patch] maintainers: remove moderated arm list

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:21:55PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 06:08:25PM +0100, Domen Puncer wrote:
> > If you are subscribed to it, you already know the address. If you are not,
> > you probably don't want bounces.
> 
> I don't particularly agree with this policy of removing such documentation,
> especially as I have a good reason to implement such policy on my mailing
> lists.
> 
> If we must, I guess it's fine, but I expect *you* to provide the support
> to people to people who don't know where to go for it if *you* remove this.

I'm sometimes doing patches that cover many files, and I want to Cc the 
patches to the developers in question.

If after sending 10 patches I get 5 "this is a subscribers-only list" 
mails, I'm not going to subscribe to 5 lists, forward the patches to 
them and unsubscribe again after this (and repeat this if there's some 
discussion regarding one of these patches).

In my experience, the best solution is a list policy that allows 
subscribers to post and requires moderator approval for non-members.
This policy that is already used by several lists listed in MAINTAINERS 
is IMHO a good compromise between avoiding spam and allowing 
non-subscribers to post to the list.

cu
Adrian

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