For what it's worth, I did exactly this for the http@projects.haskell.org list which is listed as the maintainer in the cabal file, and the list is overwhelmed by spam. Some subscribers even get bounced off it by mailman every so often because their own spam filtering is better than the pre-list filtering, and so they bounce enough of the messages that mailman sends them to trigger the "broken email address" check. I'm vaguely planning on giving up and going back to having myself only listed as maintainer as a result. I definitely wouldn't want people to have to subscribe to email the maintainer address though. On 07/02/2014 14:01, Niklas Hambüchen wrote:
Being able to post without subscription sounds sensible.
I'm subscribed to > 10 mailing lists of projects for which I report less than a bug per year because of exactly this problem, and it is very annoying.
Even if you take the extra effort and go through a sign up/off for every single bug you want to report, this doesn't really work because you might miss replies in between the signed-up periods, and while you are signed up you get all the clutter from the mailing list that is unrelated to your problem.
I recall other projects implementing an open-mailing-list principle (posting without subscription), and I think it works great.
On 07/02/14 13:47, Richard Eisenberg wrote:
Hi libraries,
The message below came through Cafe. It reports a problem when emailing libraries@haskell.org mailto:libraries@haskell.org, which is listed as the maintainer of several public packages. Yet, the list does not accept emails from non-subscribers. These two facts seem to be at odds, and turns people away from reporting bugs. Can we fix this? Or, do we want a separate, world-writable libraries-bugs@haskell.org mailto:libraries-bugs@haskell.org?
Thanks! Richard
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