The ports@ list is now subscriber-post only

[Douglas Thrift]

On 12/9/2017 3:13 PM, Tilman Keskinöz wrote:
> On 12/09/2017 17:27, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>> The ports at FreeBSD.org (aka freebsd-ports@) mailing list now requires you
>> to subscribe to the list before posting. This brings us two important
>> benefits:
>>
>> * This should cut back tremendously on spam coming through the list.
> 
> I must be living in a parallel universe, checking
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2017-December/thread.html
> there has been one (1) spam message getting through so far this month.
> That's a really tremendous amount of spam.
> 
>> * Users are more likely to find better answers to their questions: The
>> first three times a question is asked, it gets detailed replies. The
>> fourth through nth times usually get a one sentence reply.
> 
> Is a moderator ensuring that messages from unsubscribed users, who just
> sent a mail to the maintainer of an unmaintained port get through?
> 
> Otherwise we will probably miss a lot of bug reports from Users who
> don't bother to subscribe.
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https://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html.
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Douglas William Thrift
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