Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] List policy for none subscribers

[Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>]

Hi,

> This is contrary to what the wiki says:
>
> http://open-mesh.org/wiki/MailingList
>
>   You can subscribe to our Mailing List here. You can also send an
>   E-Mail without subscription to b.a.t.m.a.n@…, but note that this
>   message will have to be accepted manually (and this can take some
>   time).

the wiki is obviously wrong here. I see 2 options:

1) Correcting the wiki.

2) Finding people that are willing to handle the moderator requests.


> 1) Make the batman list open for none subscribers to post to.

That will bring a lot of SPAM to our list. Last time I checked we got 25.000 
SPAM mails in less than 3 days. Moderator requests could be the right 
compromise if somebody deals with the requests.


> 2) Create a batman-adv list which is open and we use that for all
>    discussion about kernel work.

We always can create more mailing lists but I don't have the feeling we have 
that much traffic to justify another mailing list. Or what do you think ?


> As a side issue, i'm not sure batman-adv is the right name for
> mainline. In the context of the batman project, it makes sense, but
> from the perspective of mainline, this is the first version of batman,
> and maybe we cannot justify the advanced.

Yeah, maybe you are right.

Regards,
Marek