plasma-devel to auto-discard non-subscribers?

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 8:38 PM, Luca Beltrame <lbeltrame at kde.org> wrote:
> In data martedì 19 giugno 2018 16:05:34 CEST, Harald Sitter ha scritto:
>
>> I really do not think this list doesn't benefit from a moderation queue.
>
> -1. I direct people to this list when they have queries, and for one-off
> matters they shouldn't be forced to subscribe. An outright rejection of the
> mail will just drive them away.
> Let's not raise the barrier to entry unless it's actually useful. I fail to
> see compelling arguments here.

As a general rule i'm opposed to automatic rejection of mail as that
makes us a source of backscatter spam.
Backscatter spam is generated when spammers falsify the address of
spam they send and other parties then bounce it back to the apparent
senders address.

Cheers,
Ben

>
> --
> Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team
> KDE Science supporter
> GPG key ID: A29D259B