Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] help-grub and bug-grub

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 08:51:37PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Saturday 09 February 2008 11:19, Robert Millan wrote:
> > With address@hidden we didn't have any problem with spam, since it's
> > subscriber-only.  If help-grub is made subscriber-only as well, we can
> > avoid the spam too.
> >
> > Unless Okuji planned to moderate help-grub of course. Okuji, what do you
> > think?
> 
> I think, bug-* and help-* have been traditionally open to non-subscribers. 
> But 
> I don't know if it is really important... As far as I see, Information For 
> Maintainers of GNU Software does not mention any rule about how open contacts 
> should be. So I guess it is acceptable to make the list writable only for 
> subscribers, although it would be surely inconvenient for the user who just 
> wants to ask one question.

If someone actively moderates that list, then it's no problem.  But I don't
want to do that task myself, because I think it is not worth it.

-- 
Robert Millan

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