[Buildbot-devel] spam on list

[Robert Echlin]

-----Original Message-----
From: buildbot-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:buildbot-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Brian
Warner
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 3:14 AM
To: Gianluca Sforna
Cc: buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net; Nathaniel Smith
Subject: Re: [Buildbot-devel] spam on list


"Gianluca Sforna" <giallu at gmail.com> writes:

> why don't just block non subscribes from posting? There are always
> other means to send messages w/o subscribing, for example through
> gmane[1].

A general question for everybody: Would people be ok with this policy? I
know
that some lists try to remain open to questions from people who don't
plan to
stick around for a while (or who are posting from alternate addresses).
Would
you have been less willing to ask your first question here if you had
had to
subscribe first?

-- from rme
I recommend accepting email only from subscribers. SF has useful ways to
prevent bots from signing up, so that slows down the spam. People
running Buildbot are normally technical people and should be able to
figure out how to sign up for a list. It didn't bother me
<off-road-trip>the first time I subscribed to lists in 1990, or this
time. I know, showing my age, some of you guys weren't born then, and
the walk to the one room log school was uphill both ways and especially
bad in the blizzard of '36, yada yada. Doesn't stop me from learning
here. Spam must die! Or was that Spock? Or Blue Peter? </off-road-trip>

On top of that, as well as Gianluca's suggestion for not subscribing,
you have the option to turn off messages from a list and still remain a
member. Then you have to look at it through gmane or the sf archives or
whatever, but it doesn't hit your inbox.

Rob