On Fri, 2016-08-05 at 15:54 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Fri, 05 Aug 2016 12:48:39 -0700 > Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hi folks! In an IRC discussion with a new member this morning, we > > became aware of an issue (possibly some folks knew about this already, > > but I didn't!) in the joining process. This is mostly of interest to > > qa group moderators/sponsors, but I figured it can't hurt to make > > everyone aware. > > > > Recently, the Powers That Be have made it so you can't subscribe to > > Fedora mailing lists until you're a member of the FAS 'cla' group > > (which you become a member of by signing the contributor agreement) > > *and* one other group. This requirement is intended to combat spam > > coming from bots which just create new accounts, sign the CA, then > > start subscribing to lists and sending out spam - that whole process > > can be fully automated, and has apparently been a real problem. So the > > intent is to make sure only people who've been made a member of a > > 'real' FAS group by some kind of human, non-automatable process can > > join the lists. > > This is not correct. You absolutely do not need cla+1 to join a mailing > list. How could that even be enforced? You can sign into mailman with > yahoo or persona (which have no ideas about groups). > > Fas does, but you can add arbitrary email addresses to your account. > > In short, this is not the case that I know of, so no adjustment should > need to be made. Hmm, sorry. Someone said this was the case on IRC, and I didn't actually check - I should have. Still, we could probably clarify the join process in any case. I'll come up with a separate proposal for that. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
