From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: A problem with noacl+umask+chmod result
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 14:29:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4dfe0d4-7157-406c-a0db-1b2b05b6a0ce@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0c52611b233ea08529f35fbe880886d5@mail.kylheku.com>
On 2021-04-17 11:11, Kaz Kylheku (Cygwin) via Cygwin wrote:
> On 2021-04-08 21:34, Orgad Shaneh via Cygwin wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 4:50 AM Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Why? If I report a bug, I'm interested in this bug, and I don't want
>> to receive dozens of emails every day about other issues.
> The reason for the modern configuration is spam. Allowing only
> subscribers to post drastically reduces the spam, even if no
> other anti-spam measures are implemented.
Also the sourceware.org configuration tries to eliminate subscriber email
addresses to reduce thier spam.
> For instance, GNU Mailman (a very popular mailing list manager) has
> the feature that posts from non-subscribers can be held for
> moderation.
Sourceware now uses mailman, and most/all? projects are volunteer, with time to
skim posts or do useful work, and nobody wants to moderate.
>> Every time you report a bug to a project on github/jira/whatever, you
>> subscribe to everything in this project?
>
> Without creating a github account, how do you do anything of that
> sort on github?
I think he means you don't always see everything if you report a bug on a GH
project.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-17 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-07 20:47 Orgad Shaneh
2021-04-08 5:48 ` Marco Atzeri
2021-04-08 20:28 ` Orgad Shaneh
2021-04-09 1:45 ` Andrey Repin
2021-04-09 4:34 ` Orgad Shaneh
2021-04-17 17:11 ` Kaz Kylheku (Cygwin)
2021-04-17 20:29 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2021-04-18 7:13 ` Orgad Shaneh
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