On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 20:28 -0600, Jeff Brower wrote: > David- > > > From: Ben Warren <biggerbadder...@gmail.com> > > Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:27:06 -0800 > > > >> I expect they're all people, like myself, that have been bumped here > >> from the ppc_embedded list and aren't used to all the traffic. > > > > This is why, as a policy, we never allow propagation of subscribers > > from old lists to new ones created at vger.kernel.org > > > > Everyone must go through the motions of adding themselves to the new > > list. > > > > If you allow the propagation, it's essentially an act of putting > > someone onto a mailing list without having their permission to do so. > > > > And the result is what we've seen here for the past few days. If > > those people on the embedded list were truly interested in the > > linuxppc-dev list content, they would have added themselves. > > I completely disagree. I'm glad the embedded PC list owners were thoughtful > enough to migrate me to the new list. > They are experts, they know what they're doing, and I trust their judgment. > > My only complaint is that the new subject lines don't have the widely used > "[group-name]" prefix. I might guess that > some people rely on that to organize e-mail searches for specific group > content.
Instead they have "List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List <linuxppc-dev.ozlabs.org>" in the headers, which any modern mailer should be able to grok. cheers -- Michael Ellerman OzLabs, IBM Australia Development Lab wwweb: http://michael.ellerman.id.au phone: +61 2 6212 1183 (tie line 70 21183) We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. - S.M.A.R.T Person
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