[MacPorts] #41832: Can't build FileZilla

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Jan 6, 2014, at 3:21 PM, lhaeger <lothar.haeger at gmx.net> wrote:

> Well, then make it more obvious how to best reply.

All emails generated by our bug tracker have the Trac ticket URL near the bottom. Here's more information on it:

http://guide.macports.org/chunked/project.html

> I only subscribed to the mailing list because the webpage I found about this bug via google asked me to and explicitly stated, I could not reply successfully without subscribing. This was my entry point: http://mac-os-forge.2317878.n4.nabble.com/MacPorts-41832-Can-t-build-FileZilla-td239369.html#a240717 and I just hit reply and took it from there.

We're not responsible for the Nabble interface.

> This is what I get in bright yellow then: 
> 
> „This message will be sent from [hidden email] to the [hidden email] mailing list. 
> You may need to subscribe to this mailing list for your message to be accepted."      
> 
> When I first tried, there was an even more alarming message about making sure to have subscribed and not proceed without.

All MacPorts mailing lists require subscription, as an anti-spam measure.

> Why don’t you dump the whole mailing list stuff if it’s rarely used and only triggering behaviour you do not want to see?

Some people (like myself) subscribe to it as a way of keeping up with tickets. All tickets, changes to tickets, and comments on tickets are automatically posted to the list.

vq