FWIW: I think we all know each other's positions on open vs. closed
lists. :-)
I only did what I did this weekend to stop the inbox tragedy. I leave
future actions (such as re-enabling anonymous posting) up to Jeff
Becker, the real sysadmin.
I'd personally be in favor of removing *all* aliases for openib.org.
On Aug 19, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Roland Dreier wrote:
Disallowing non members posts to the general list is problematic,
since as of the below MAINTAINERS entry this is where people from the
kernel community post issues they have with the RDMA stack, and you
don't expect everyone to subscribe the list...
I agree... closed mailing lists are a pain for lists like general@
where
we want to encourage people, even non-subscribers, to drop by and
report
bugs, and forcing them to subscribe raises an unnecessary barrier.
It's probably acceptable to leave ewg closed, since the discussion on
that list generally involves only subscribers.
In any case it would be interesting to understand exactly why ewg
started getting such a huge flood of traffic anyway. It seemed that
the
majority of mails were not actually spam but rather backscatter bounce
messages caused by spam with a forged from address of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It seems disabling the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address would fix things for
now,
and if there were some way to stop mailman from forwarding bounce
messages, that would deal with the backscatter issue more permanently.
- R.
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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
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