We don't reject posts from non-subscribers, we just don't approve them automatically. So people can ask. We just need to check if it's not a spam and approve it manually.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Pavel Valena <pvalena@redhat.com> wrote:

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Samalik" <asamalik@redhat.com>
> To: developer-portal@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 9:33:36 AM
> Subject: [Developer-portal] Recent spam issues has been fixed
>
> Hi everyone,

Hello,

>
> I would like to apologize for the recent spam coming to this mailing list. It
> was caused by wrong message acceptance and subscription policy setting of
> the mailing list on our side.
>
> I have fixed the setting to prevent these kind of spam messages by requiring
> a list membership to post, and manually approving new members.

Is it really necessary to require a list membership to post? Someone could just have a question without the need to subscribe.

Manual approval seems also redundant to me(esp. when non-membership post is allowed), as I consider information in this list public.

Feel free to correct me.

>
> Sorry again,
> Adam
>
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> Red Hat
>

Pavel Valena
Associate Software Engineer
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