Re: [patch] maintainers: remove moderated arm list

Adrian Bunk
2005-01-04T17:38:06Z

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:25:33PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:54:38PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:21:55PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Well, that's precisely what happens with these lists - your post ends
> up in the moderator approval queue. They do generally find their way
> from there into the appropriate peoples mailboxes (iow, mine).

OK, sorry, my comment was wrong.

I confused moderated with subscribers-only .

cu
Adrian

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