Steve Lamb wrote: > Mike McCarty said: > >>I proposed a change in order to prevent such posts. I propose that >>messages which come from non-subscribed aliases be rejected from the >>list. > > > This has been asked for and rejected for the past several years. On > many things Debian is sensible. On this Debian is downright negligent > and utterly stupid. Want to know the reason why it isn't implemented? > > Because maybe, somewhere, someone who's looking for support is going to > somehow figure out how to set up Debian, get it online, get it sending > and receiving mail yet be utterly incapable of filling out the webform > to subscribe to the mailing list to receive help in order to.... set up > Debian, get it online, get it sending and receiving mail. > > Yeah, head explosion time right there. >
The issue likely has more to do with the volume of mails to the list. Aside from lkml, I can't think of a busier list. It is nice for a user to be able to post without having to let his inbox be inundated with d-u mail. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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