Messages in this thread | | | Subject | [ANN] new mailing list | Date | Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:08:33 -0500 | From | Justin Hahn <> |
| |
Shawn Carruthers [24 Feb 1999 @ 01:55 +0000 GMT]: > > Make it an automatically moderated newsgroup. Only subscribers to > linux-kernel can post. > > This can be done automatically: posts get forwarded to the moderator which > is a bot which checks the posting host against the list of subscribers. > > Quite a few newsgroups run like this.
Problem with that is non-list members can't send bug-reports in that instance, which is the way a lot of people send reports. We can't expect everyone who needs to send a bug report to join the list. If we did we'd lose a fair proportion of bug reports.
----------------------------------------------- Justin Hahn <jehahn@raven.bu.edu> Systems Administrator Boston University SPI Lab -----------------------------------------------
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |