Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:54 PM, Benda Xu <hero...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> It boils down to an attitude of assuming outsiders are good (blacklist >> to ML) or bad (whitelist to ML) by default.
++ This is the most crucial point. It is the general attitude: Does Gentoo welcome contributions or want to make their developers live in an ivory tower? It is about openness vs. isolation. > It is > basically impossible to blacklist somebody on a mailing list, since > all they need to do is roll up a new email address. That may be technically true but it is not a problem the mailing list is currently facing. If it should eventually happen to be the case that the mailing list is filled by tons of spam of anonymous posters or faked identities causing serious problems, one can still think about changing the modus operandi. But without such an absolute need, it is very bad to restrict freedom.
