On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 10:43, Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Whimsy currently shows 6 PPMC members who are not subscribed. > > > Digging into this more… > > It looks there's also been troubles subscribing from China, or more accurate > receiving the confirm subscription emails from apache to chinese inboxes. > (And it wouldn't surprise me if after creating a new mail accounts and > getting things to work, folk would be forgetting then about > private@skywalking ) > > There's some oddity like Yao Wang who is subscribed to dev ML but is not > getting the confirm email using the same email address for the private ML. > > For example: > ``` > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at apache.org. > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. > > <private-tc.1551689265.dkffilnheganngfmokmf-allen.wang.123=outlook....@skywalking.apache.org>: > ezmlm-manage: fatal: Illegal or outdated moderator request (#5.7.1) > ```
The cookies in the moderator mails expire after a few days. > Indeed if I look through my inbox I see some of those missing from the > private ML having matching "CONFIRM subscribe to > priv...@skywalking.apache.org" emails. But they say they did not get those > emails. > > Folk are also just using the list.apache.org website, which is of no surprise > considering the above errors. We'll continue with this, as the Chinese > communities will need to have this sorted out, but we do believe that all > have attempted to subscribe. > > Is there a reason that people with @apache.org addresses have to manually > subscribe to these lists, if it's so mandatory? > > I would have thought this is something that should just then be automatic, > and then in this situation it's just the problem of ensuring the @apache.org > address is successfully forwarding emails. People may wish to subscribe using a different email from the one to which their ASF email is forwarded. Subscription by the PPMC member achieves both the above: - choice of email address - validation that the address can get emails It also means that the person is aware that the private@ list is something they need to follow. > regards, > Mick > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
