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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:54 PM, Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o> wrote: |
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>> It boils down to an attitude of assuming outsiders are good (blacklist |
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>> to ML) or bad (whitelist to ML) by default. |
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This is the most crucial point. |
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It is the general attitude: Does Gentoo welcome contributions |
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or want to make their developers live in an ivory tower? |
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It is about openness vs. isolation. |
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> It is |
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> basically impossible to blacklist somebody on a mailing list, since |
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> all they need to do is roll up a new email address. |
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That may be technically true but it is not a problem the mailing list |
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is currently facing. If it should eventually happen to be the case |
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that the mailing list is filled by tons of spam of anonymous posters |
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or faked identities causing serious problems, one can still think about |
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changing the modus operandi. |
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But without such an absolute need, it is very bad to restrict freedom. |
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