Re: Re[8]: [PEAR-DEV] Public info and voting about RFE's, patches for distinc package

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:56:05 +0200, anatoly techtonik <techtonik@php.net> wrote: > Hello Helgi, > > >> A little excursion into the thread past. That's a thread about > >> pear-bugs@lists.php.net which is a good idea, but which doesn't > >> exists. > >> I can't understand you. You is "we" and in who is administering mail > >> lists? Why is it so hard to ask him to do it or at least make a > >> proposal so he can see that this ML is really needed. > > HЮ> No we being the web team, since we deal with account requests and such > HЮ> (In the programming sense), those who control the lists are some PHP sys > HЮ> admins, we have emailed many many times about getting some better spam > HЮ> protection on pear-cvs, never got no answer, so you can imagen how it is > HЮ> about asking for pear-bugs, the fact is that people are doing this for > HЮ> free, so we just can't expect for people to be around 24/7 nor anything > HЮ> like that. > > I think you should ping toby or mike on php.net (Michael Wallner and Tobias > Schlitt). They might have access to ML configuration. Or at least they > know who is responsible. As for pear-cvs spam protection, an option > can be checked that only subscribers are able to write and > non-subscribed addresses require confirmation first to make their > letters appear in pear-cvs. And purge the base of confirmed addresses. > Estimated time: 10 minutes party > Estimated complexity: click some checkboxes > And multiple people (including me) have asked for the ML owners to do this, getting back no response. Ideally the PEAR-CVS list should allow only the CVS scripts to mail to it as it's not a discussion list, just a distribution list. -- Justin Patrin