[arc-discuss] Re: [website-discuss] restrictive email alias posting rules on OS.o are impacting open ARC discussions (eg. PSARC-EXT 2006/550 - ksh93)...

[Richard Lowe]

John Plocher wrote:
> The ksh93 case was submitted today by April and Don (as PSARC-EXT 
> 2006/550).
> Unfortunately, not too many people outside of Sun know this because the 
> mail
> announcing the case submission isn't being accepted by the mail software
> camped on the opensolaris-arc@ and ksh93-integration@ aliases.  It isn't
> accepted because the senders aren't  subscribed to all the aliases being
> included in the conversation.

A first and immediate step for this case would be to have someone who 
moderates the aliases in question let the mail through, for right now, 
or none of us will see this in general, while waiting for a larger 
solution.

> As it is impractical and undesirable to have everyone subscribed 
> everywhere,
> I need a solution that meets these needs:
> 
>    Any ARC related mail needs to be accepted by all the community and
>    project aliases on OS.o.

For mail being bridged out from the machinery driving the ARC stuff, 
that makes sense, however, see below.

>    ARC related mail must not require the sender to have membership
>    on any OS.o alias.  That is, ARC related email will come from many
>    places, including non OS.o members.

I'd like to hear more of the rational behind this.  I can't see 
anything immediately wrong with expecting people involved in such 
discussions to have opensolaris.org accounts.  Though requiring 
subscription to the various specific aliases is not good, I agree.

There's already the "Let any opensolaris.org member post to any list 
without moderation" request(s).  Why would these, if implemented, not 
meet your needs?

-- Rich