On 20 February 2013 16:19, Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> wrote: > +++ Philip Colmer [2013-02-20 08:36 +0000]: >> I'm not entirely comfortable with blindly white-listing anyone who posts >> to linaro-dev with something that doesn't look like spam, for several >> reasons: >> 1. That is not a great way to run a moderated mailing list. >> 2. IT aren't going to be in the best position to say whether or not the >> sender should�be able to send to linaro-dev, even if they didn't send >> spam. > > Why do we want to block anyone from linaro-dev unless they are > spamming (which would include being too-far off-topic)? > > Arguments about the admin load of moderation, or the difficulties of > spam-filtering accurately on an open list, I can understand; but the > idea that this list should be restricted to only suitably enlightened > people by default seems wrong to me. It should be as open as we can > practically make it, shouldn't it?
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