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Question regarding maintainer email
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| Tobias Frost 2006-10-16, 7:41 pm |
| Hi,
I have a question according maintainer email contact addresses: A group
of packages have a - well - kind of private email list.
But if reporting bugs, for example, you get a kind of bounce, which is
quite annoying: (shows also up in the bug tracking system)
--- quote ---
Your mail to ... with the subject
(...)
Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
The reason it is being held:
Post by non-member to a members-only list
Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive
notification of the moderator's decision. If you would like to cancel
this posting, please visit the following URL:
--- end quote --
My question, is, if this is ok with the debian packaging policy chapter
3.3, or not (that is should I file a bug?)
Thanks
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| Daniel Jacobowitz 2006-10-16, 7:41 pm |
| On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 07:51:04PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
> My question, is, if this is ok with the debian packaging policy chapter
> 3.3, or not (that is should I file a bug?)
It is not considered acceptable. It's the default settings on alioth,
and instructions on how to fix them are posted to this list
periodically.
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| Bill Allombert 2006-10-16, 7:41 pm |
| On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:36:39PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 07:51:04PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote:
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> It is not considered acceptable. It's the default settings on alioth,
> and instructions on how to fix them are posted to this list
> periodically.
Something I have yet to understand is what purposes the bounce serve in
the first place. Moderating is OK, but bouncing ?
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| Ben Finney 2006-10-16, 7:41 pm |
| Bill Allombert <ballombe@master.debian.org> writes:
> Something I have yet to understand is what purposes the bounce [from
> a moderated list] serve in the first place. Moderating is OK, but
> bouncing ?
I read many mailing lists (this one, for example) without being
subscribed as a member.
An automated message saying "Your post to the list, unlike many
others, will be delayed until a human acts" tells me that I shouldn't
get anxious at the non-appearance of my message on the list. Without
such a message, many people would believe their message was eaten
somewhere, and post it again and again.
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| Tino Keitel 2006-10-17, 7:42 am |
| On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:33:04 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Bill Allombert <ballombe@master.debian.org> writes:
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> I read many mailing lists (this one, for example) without being
> subscribed as a member.
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> An automated message saying "Your post to the list, unlike many
> others, will be delayed until a human acts" tells me that I shouldn't
> get anxious at the non-appearance of my message on the list. Without
> such a message, many people would believe their message was eaten
> somewhere, and post it again and again.
However, it is often the case that such mails will never make it to the
list, due to lazyness or other reasons for the list admin not to accept
the mail manually. I already had this case with an Alioth list that was
used as the maintainer address for a Debian package.
Regards,
Tino
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| Marc Haber 2006-10-21, 7:33 pm |
| On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:16:52 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen
<pere@hungry.com> wrote:
>Yeah. And if you get a lot of spam to the list, using the listadmin
>script make it a lot easier to process through the moderation
>requests. One of the list I moderate get 200 spam a day, and I would
>never have been able to moderate it if it wasn't for the listadmin
>package.
Agreed. It would be even better if listadmin would be able to show a
list of messages instead of processing each message one after the
other.
Greetings
Marc
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