Start here: http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/mailing-lists/
There are nine mailing lists here. People at Red Hat administer the first eight mailing lists (gdb-announce, gdb, gdb-patches, gdb-prs, gdb-testers, gdb-cvs, src-cvs, gdbadmin). If you look in the archives you will see that they are effectively anti-spammed. The ninth list, bug-gdb, is maintained directly by gnu.org. As you have noticed, this list is overrun with spam. In April 2002 (the last full month), 827 of the 867 messages are spam. The admin page for this list is: http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gdb This page lists an admin contact address of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I recommend you go there and ask about volunteering. The Mailman web site is at: http://www.list.org This spam annoys me too. So I've added an item to the end of my TODO list to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] and volunteer to moderate some lists. Technically, it's easy to antispam a Gnu Mailman list. Just set up the list to hold postings from non-subscribers. Once or twice a day, an admin can look at the hold queue and kill all the spam (95% of the postings). There can be multiple admins. There is a whitelist of pre-approved non-subscribers, so if you see a gdb developer making frequent replies to bug-gdb, but they are not subscribed to bug-gdb, you can add them to the whitelist. It's GNU policy that Project GNU does not undertake to help individual users or reply to bug reports. A bug report is a user contribution to help improve the software for future generations. Users who want guaranteed responses are encouraged to hire a technical support provider. Thus, I believe there is no policy issue with holding bug-gdb postings for approval, which will typically delay them for 6 to 24 hours. I know that as a developer, I'd rather receive delayed messages with no spam than immediate messages along with 20 spams (and that really is the ratio, 20 spams to 1 legitimate message). There may be other issues, though. The FSF moves in mysterious ways. Good luck if you pursue this, Michael C _______________________________________________ Bug-gdb mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gdb
