These days, spam is a huge percentage of all email and the open source mailing lists are no exception. In order to allow anyone to report problems and ask for help many OSS mailing lists don't require you to subscribe before posting... that means that someone has to go through and look through the spam to find the messages that should be forwarded to the list.
In the GNU Project, we advocate free software, not open source. "Open source" is the slogan of a movement that was formed specifically to reject (and hush up) our philosophy, so we never use that term here except to explain the difference between the two movements. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html. As representatives of the GNU project it makes it even more important that we clearly state that we and the work we do is not part of a movement that was created to silence us. Cheers. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
