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

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 17:56, anatoly techtonik 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 They don't, that I know, they are frequent users on #pear@efnet like me. I also know what people are in charge of those mailing lists, that's not the problem really. Also the pear-cvs spam has been discussed a lot and many different people tried to contact the sys admins like I said before. Dunno though what you mean with some checkboxes, people usually use mail clients or news clients, we were thinking more along the lines of allowing only the cvs commits to be emailed there, no one else would be able to do that. - Helgi