[Bug 262909] Some "maintainer" addresses blocked to non-subscribers

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262909

--- Comment #2 from Mikhail Teterin <mi@FreeBSD.org> ---
Created attachment 232820
  --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=232820&action=edit
Bogus rejection of a patch-submission by e-mail

(In reply to Rene Ladan from comment #1)
> This is not a problem for portmgr

Of course, it is a problem for portmgr -- as is any problem affecting multiple
ports and requiring a unified response.

It certainly has nothing to do with the Postmaster or Mailing Lists -- _some_
of those may legitimately be closed, just not those advertised as
support-sources.

> it takes 1 minute to subscribe to such a list

This is flawed -- one should not be required to subscribe to anything in order
to simply ASK A QUESTION. It does not matter, if the subscribing takes a
minute, a second, or a week of filing applications and supplying notarized
copies of supporting documents (as may be necessitated in the future by the
rapid evolution of spam toolkits).

FreeBSD does not require users to "register" to obtain support -- as some
vendors do -- and that's, how things ought to continue.

The MAINTAINER field is there for users to contact first and foremost. If the
specified address bounces for almost all of such users, then it is
undeliverable -- how is this not obvious?

I maintain, that this attitude -- and the number of hoops a would-be
contributor is required to jump through -- is an impediment to the Project.

For evidence, I'm attaching a sample bounce email with an automated rejection
of a patch -- on account of the sender not being a "subscriber". Because I know
the project well, I resubmitted the same patch as a PR (bug #262908) -- but a
newcomer, probably, wouldn't bother to do so...

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