[Bug 262909] Some "maintainer" addresses blocked to non-subscribers

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262909

Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Philip Paeps <philip@FreeBSD.org> ---
As far as postmaster@ is concerned, this is a WONTFIX.

Anyone can subscribe to most of our mailing lists.  They can potentially expand
to thousands of subscribers (as ports@ does).  This makes them very attractive
for spammers.  Being listed on the mlmmj index makes these lists easy to find
too.

While I sympathise with the view that MAINTAINER addresses should be easy to
reach, open mailing lists are not viable in today's internet.  Subscribing to a
mailing list is not an insurmountable burden.  Moreover, mlmmj makes it easy to
subscribe an address for posting only (nomail).


We (postmaster@) will not permit non-subscribers to post to mailing lists to
which anyone can subscribe.

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