It seems to me that this is a very common, reasonable and (for these) it is a much expected option/feature that projects need (done with their mailing lists, at least).
If this feature is not available in any mailing list system, maybe we can have the same effect by using a mail alias, which messages will be redirected to selected and known list of maintainers. For example, the email secur...@lwip.savannah.org can be the "mailing list" available to anyone that wants/needs to report problems, and this address (or list, as we are calling it) is informed as having messages that will not be made public, unless necessary. Any person replying to these messages (he received them for being one selected receiver) MUST reply the message in a special way with two possible things: use some interface so the send the reply, so the person's real address is not kept/shown in the list (and the person who sent it, that must receive all replies, but only the related to their message); optionally, add a "reply to" mail header, but this should not be preferred, since this kind of "list" might involve unpredictable aspects of things, so the more neutral, the better. As I have said, any person can send messages to this "list", and replies made to this message might be sent to this person, as need. An option to stop sending messages to that person must exist, so I imagine that a "controlled list member" would be harder to make practical then the simple "add the person's address in the replies while it's needed - not adding it will mean the person's contribution to the subject is done. A friendly end with "thank you" or "the issue will be resolved and we will inform you personally, with a message, when it is solved" is something nice to have. What do you all think of asking maintainers of Savannah and/or GNU services for this? I am newbie around, so, if I had any idea that is "old", please forgive this detail. But to me it seems a good idea, and fairly simple to have. Regards, -- Balaco On Fri, Sep 25, 2015, at 09:35, Simon Goldschmidt wrote: > Assaf Gordon wrote > > Can you point me to the list in question ? > > We could then try and troubleshoot. > > I had the same problem with the "lwip-members" list. I thought I could > use it to get reports about security-related issues in the lwip project, > but that's not an option as long as the archive is publicly available: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lwip-members/ > > > Simon > -- http://www.fastmail.com - Send your email first class
