Maintainers must be reachable by email

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Aug 31 04:46:14 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 13:39 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 8/30/05, Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat.com> wrote:
> > But it doesn't matter - Tom's point was that, regardless, spam will
> > flow to any new email address.  
> 
> Not if the new address only accepts mail from other fedoraproject.org addresses.
> 
> What I'm getting from this thread is that there needs to be a
> dedicated way for people inside the project to talk to other people
> inside the project...privately.
> 
> Surely there is a technical solution to this problem involving a mail
> server, aliases and some gpg signature checking. Maintainers do have
> gpg keys on file right?  So any mail going to a fedoraproject.org
> alias has its signature checked to see if the mail is really from a
> registered contributor in the accounts system. That should prevent
> spam to such an alias to a very great extent. Of course... just
> cutting off an out-of-touch maintainers cvs access would be my
> personal choice..but I'm evil.

So you want to setup a filter that does all that shit on the server?
Screw that - if someone wants to be a paranoid nutjob with their email
that's what procmail is for. You can set that up for yourself but doing
it all on the mail server - thppppppppppt.


-sv





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