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From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
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Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2021 14:29:00 -0600
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On 2021-04-17 11:11, Kaz Kylheku (Cygwin) via Cygwin wrote:
> On 2021-04-08 21:34, Orgad Shaneh via Cygwin wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 4:50 AM Andrey Repin wrote:
>> Why? If I report a bug, I'm interested in this bug, and I don't want
>> to receive dozens of emails every day about other issues.

> The reason for the modern configuration is spam. Allowing only
> subscribers to post drastically reduces the spam, even if no
> other anti-spam measures are implemented.

Also the sourceware.org configuration tries to eliminate subscriber email 
addresses to reduce thier spam.

> For instance, GNU Mailman (a very popular mailing list manager) has
> the feature that posts from non-subscribers can be held for
> moderation.

Sourceware now uses mailman, and most/all? projects are volunteer, with time to 
skim posts or do useful work, and nobody wants to moderate.

>> Every time you report a bug to a project on github/jira/whatever, you
>> subscribe to everything in this project?
> 
> Without creating a github account, how do you do anything of that
> sort on github?

I think he means you don't always see everything if you report a bug on a GH 
project.

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