On Sat, January 23, 2016 10:37 am, Chuck Anderson wrote: > Note: I'm speaking for myself here. I'm not affiliated in any way > with the CentOS project, other than being an interested party who > mirrors and uses the project. > > I think it is unreasonable to expect a project you are mirroring to > respond to such requests as below. It isn't scalable to have hundreds > or thousands of mirrors send such requests to "verify your email > address" to a project such as CentOS or any other open source project. > Can you imagine if everyone who followed the Linux Kernel list sent > such a request? It is your duty as a mirror admin to keep informed > enough about the projects you are mirroring to know the contact > information, or to discover this information as needed. I also think > it is unnecessary to send such requests, because most big open source > projects aren't in the habit of changing their contact information, > and if they do, it is usually widely announced well in advance. This > information is also prominantly available on the CentOS Mirror web > site. > > As to your other message about this mailing list, I can see your point > about wanting to be notified of important topics without having to see > every mundane email about routine requests from other mirror admins. > It would help mirror admins to keep informed if there were an > announcement-only list such as centos-mirror-announce at centos.org. > > Remember, CentOS is a community project and we are all volunteers > here. There are probably hundreds of members of this list who see > every email sent here, most of whom are mirror admins just like > yourself. Chuck, I hope, your reasoning reaches their minds. I personally find it counter productive to reason with people who didn't have any reasoning about what they are doing in the first place. Like the ones placing such a blatant requests, or the ones letting their "vacation" auto-responses sent to mail lists they are subscribed to. Just my $0.02. Valeri > > Respectfully, > Chuck Anderson > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 01:57:36PM +0100, Carsten Otto wrote: >> Dear CentOS admins, >> >> I'm an administrator of ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de, and your project is >> mirrored by us. >> >> Right now I'm preparing a clean list of projects and corresponding >> contact addresses, so that we can get into touch with you more easily. >> >> As there are a few upcoming changes, news, and questions from our side, >> please make sure to **confirm/update your contact address(es)** used for >> this mail, also shown below. Another mail with more actual content will >> be sent around next week or so. >> >> centos-mirror at centos.org >> >> A short "OK" response would be great, and we'd be happy to update the >> contact information where necessary. >> >> Thank you very much, >> Carsten >> -- >> Dr. Carsten Otto >> http://verify.rwth-aachen.de/otto/ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++