[OT] Re: Request to mailing list freebsd-security rejected

[Matt D. Harris]

I wouldn't call that an irrational policy at all.  I'm on one rather 
large list which is frequently a victim of spam, however most spammers 
are not willing to subscribe to lists (thankfully) to spam them, so 
dropping non-member email automagically before it goes to the list or 
even a moderator seems to make a good bit of sense.
This is, of course, one of those topics along with FreeBSD vs. Linux or 
Perl vs. Python of which nothing ever comes besides holy wars.  ;-)
But I am very curious why this was posted to stable at freebsd.org, which 
has nothing to do with the security@ list?

Oh, and by the way -
Your post was rejected because (as per the url you pasted in) you're 
subscribed as dillon at backplane.com but the From: field of your messages 
seems to be dillon at apollo.backplane.com.  So this is entirely a 
configuration error on your end/your mail client.

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     Secondly, the policy outlined below is ludicrous.  The lists are here to
>     facilitate communications between people on various topics.  As long
>     as the communication is legitimate it is in the best interests of everyone
>     to NOT reject postings from non-subscribed members.  If the moderator
>     cannot be bothered with moderating the list, then perhaps a new moderator
>     should be chosen.
> 
>     What bozo decided to enact this irrational policy?