From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: What is with all these unsubscribe messages From: Michael Ellerman To: Jeff Brower In-Reply-To: <32909.64.219.188.227.1231208926.squirrel@office.signalogic.com> References: <85a5c2010901051703t4ea70cf2hf3b4ea7d2cb39262@mail.gmail.com> <20090105200718.0dab886a@lappy.seanm.ca> <4962B36A.20500@gmail.com> <20090105.175935.193702661.davem@davemloft.net> <32909.64.219.188.227.1231208926.squirrel@office.signalogic.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-CtccN+dtUvY9InkRyTUs" Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:06:59 +1100 Message-Id: <1231211219.8460.69.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Miller Reply-To: michael@ellerman.id.au List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --=-CtccN+dtUvY9InkRyTUs Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 20:28 -0600, Jeff Brower wrote: > David- >=20 > > From: Ben Warren > > 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. >=20 > I completely disagree. I'm glad the embedded PC list owners were thought= ful enough to migrate me to the new list.=20 > They are experts, they know what they're doing, and I trust their judgmen= t. >=20 > My only complaint is that the new subject lines don't have the widely use= d "[group-name]" prefix. I might guess that > some people rely on that to organize e-mail searches for specific group c= ontent. Instead they have "List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List " in the headers, which any modern mailer should be able to grok. cheers --=20 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 --=-CtccN+dtUvY9InkRyTUs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkliytMACgkQdSjSd0sB4dKVMgCfWMLeSRWCbCxJxgHgJQwDXkjL 6zgAn26vHqVyq/Ze9EQBt/rZxQTyfbNo =FMDQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-CtccN+dtUvY9InkRyTUs--