On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Ben Cotton <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi gang, > > It's apparently time to revisit the topic of mailing list settings. > Currently, docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is set to hold messages from > non-subscribed addresses for moderation. There are several of us who > moderate the list every few days or so to let legitimate traffic > through. The idea behind this was to make it so people who aren't > regularly involved with Docs can still send us messages, without > requiring them to subscribe. > > I'm a fan of this, but the downsides are that: > 1) people who aren't subscribed might not get replies > 2) not all lists do this > > I suggested that we might try to get all lists to allow > @fedoraproject.org email addresses. This fixes 2, but not 1. The real > issue that we're trying to solve is making it easy to > cross-communicate between groups. Sparks and I don't have a magic > bullet. Any thoughts? > > > BC > > -- > Ben Cotton Even if we subscribe to many mailing lists, we could miss an important message. The point 1 could not be easily handled using mailman. The clever way would be to define the email address to members, only to the specific thread. I don't think that mailman could do it, does anyone knows sympa[1]? (I don't, but it has more features). Or just hope that people won't just reply to the list but reply to all. I personally set this rule (@fpo aliases on the white list) to trans-fr mailing list. [1] https://www.sympa.org/index -- Kévin Raymond User:shaiton GPG-Key: A5BCB3A2 -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
