From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Scott Haneda <talklists@newgeo.com>
Cc: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is this an appropriate list for general git questions
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:55:17 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buo634foenu.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0D0DD5C5-B535-49AC-B0A9-403C4FA5E193@newgeo.com> (Scott Haneda's message of "Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:07:09 -0700")
Scott Haneda <talklists@newgeo.com> writes:
>> By the way, this mailing list accepts posts from non-subscribers, and
>> it's the policy on the list to always cc: everyone who has replied to
>> a message in that thread so far, including the original poster. The
>> idea is that you can ask a question about git without *having* to
>> subscribe to read all the other stuff. But of course, reading some
>> of the other stuff will make you a more competent git user pretty
>> fast, so it might be worth it anyway.
>
> Interesting, I have never once in 15+ years of mailing lists, seen a
> list work this way. Pretty nice to not have to subscribe. Amazing
> that there is not spam all over this list.
"Subscribers-only" lists are a fairly recent aberration.
-Miles
--
Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the
limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-29 5:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-21 22:59 Is this an appropriate list for general git questions Scott Haneda
2010-03-22 0:36 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-03-27 8:07 ` Scott Haneda
2010-03-27 22:29 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-03-28 0:00 ` Scott Haneda
2010-03-29 5:55 ` Miles Bader [this message]
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