From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sunset.davemloft.net (unknown [74.93.104.97]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D845DE327 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 12:59:35 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:59:35 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20090105.175935.193702661.davem@davemloft.net> To: biggerbadderben@gmail.com Subject: Re: What is with all these unsubscribe messages From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <4962B36A.20500@gmail.com> References: <85a5c2010901051703t4ea70cf2hf3b4ea7d2cb39262@mail.gmail.com> <20090105200718.0dab886a@lappy.seanm.ca> <4962B36A.20500@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, mgessner@gmail.com, smaclennan@pikatech.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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.