El Sábado 23/01/2016, Carsten Otto escribió: > Dear Cent OS mirror admins, > and also dear admins not related to CentOS, > > this mail only regards the mailing list centos-mirror at centos.org and is > not related to specific mirroring issues. I kindly ask you to read it > nevertheless. > > I'm an administrator of a mirror serving content of more than 50 > projects, CentOS being one of them. As it happens, some things like > changed IP addresses, firewall issues, DNS changes, and bigger outages > need to be announced from time to time. Please read this message trying > to understand my perspective, wanting to serve as many projects with as > little effort as possible. > > For this task, I have at least one contact address for each project. In > the case of CentOS it is this list. This list only accepts mails from > subscribers, which I learned the hard way. Based on this I have the > following suggestions and topics for discussion: > > 1) Open the mailing list to allow unsubscribed admins to send. This > works with almost all of the other projects, and I guess they are > perfectly fine with it. Try mirrors at debian.org, > mirror-list-d at redhat.com, mirror-admin at gentoo.org, admin at opensuse.org, > mirrors at ubuntu.com just to name a few. I believe this list was open at some point, it was later closed due to spam problems, and I actually prefer it like that. > 2) If you decide against 1), at least INFORM the senders that their > messages are filtered out. In the past week I thought I was being > ignored, as I did not receive such mails. This obviously is not a > feeling you want to nurture in admins supporting your project. Agreed, but are you sure the bounces weren't being filtered on your side? (A few minutes ago I sent a mail from a gmail address, still no bounce received). > 3) (As a precaution) Make sure to reply to the original sender, not only > to the list. I don't want to receive the messages relating to specific > issues sent by OTHER mirror admins, as this is what I consider spam. > Those mails are not of any interest to me. Moot point if the list is closed to susbcribers only. > 4) Make the "Mail delivery" option default to false. I appreciate that I > can disable receiving messages from other admins (see 3), but having to > set this up myself is putting even more work on my shoulders. Sorry but no, if I subscribe to a mailing list I *expect* to receive mails. A sepparate announces only mailing list might be an option, but due to the low message rate of this list I don't know if it's worth it. > Thank you, > Carsten Regards, -- Ricardo J. Barberis Senior SysAdmin / IT Architect DonWeb La Actitud Es Todo www.DonWeb.com _____