On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> I think sometimes people have a simple question that they want >> answered. ?Lets imagine the case of someone who's struggling configuring >> a PKCS#11 module as a specific example. ?They're probably not prepared >> to be fully involved in all the various security discussions, but they >> might like to ask a simple question that can be answered by the folks on >> the security-discuss@ list. ?But, if that mail list just outright >> rejects their e-mail, the user is faced with two (maybe three) options: >> >> 1) subscribe to the list >> 2) give up on the list and find other resources to answer the question >> (and often, if that doesn't work, just give up on actually solving it -- >> in some cases I suspect this turns people off to OpenSolaris altogether) >> 3) if they know someone *specifically*, they can send a "targetted" >> e-mail to a list member to ask them or ask them to repost for them > > 4) Use the web forums, which bypass the mailman filters, and are a more > ? familiar interface for many people who want to ask one question, not > ? join an ongoing community/discussion list.
How about allowing PGP signed messages through so long as the PGP identity is associated with a opensolaris.org user account? I assume that this would require some customization to mailman, but that may be an interesting project for someone. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
