Closed lists as maintainers

2009-12-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
I hope we can agree that maintainers should be able to receive mail from any legitimate sender. However, some maintainer addresses point to mailing lists that automatically reject mail from non-subscribers (without the intervention of a moderator). The case I am painfully aware of is

Re: Closed lists as maintainers

2009-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 29 December 2009, Ben Hutchings wrote: I believe this configuration is unacceptable, but would like to check that there is a consensus on this before pressing the matter with the GRUB maintainers. I agree, but it's hardly a new issue. For grub it's been this way for years and

Re: Closed lists as maintainers

2009-12-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:48:07PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: I hope we can agree that maintainers should be able to receive mail from any legitimate sender. snip I believe this configuration is unacceptable, but would like to check that there is a consensus on this before pressing the matter

Re: Closed lists as maintainers

2009-12-29 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Ben Hutchings wrote: I hope we can agree that maintainers should be able to receive mail from any legitimate sender. However, some maintainer addresses point to mailing lists that automatically reject mail from non-subscribers (without the intervention of a moderator). The case I am

Re: Closed lists as maintainers

2009-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: I hope we can agree that maintainers should be able to receive mail from any legitimate sender. However, some maintainer addresses point to mailing lists that automatically reject mail from non-subscribers (without the intervention of a moderator).

Re: Closed lists as maintainers

2009-12-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
I hope we can agree that maintainers should be able to receive mail from any legitimate sender. Yes. However, some maintainer addresses point to mailing lists that automatically reject mail from non-subscribers (without the intervention of a moderator). The case I am painfully aware of is

Re: Closed lists as maintainers

2009-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Russ Allbery wrote: I hope we can agree that maintainers should be able to receive mail from any legitimate sender. However, some maintainer addresses point to mailing lists that automatically reject mail from non-subscribers (without the intervention of a moderator). The case I am