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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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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  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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