Re: Mailing List Etiquette

[Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>]

Dne Pá 21. srpna 2009 09:26:07 Pavel Machek napsal(a):
> > This message is sent to this mailing list once a week.
>
> Could we maybe reduce the frequency of this spam a little bit?
Hi!
Agreed
>
> >              1. Subscription requirements. [[24]rmk]
> >                 Recently, we have had to impose a restriction on the
> > mailing lists. You must be subscribed to the mailing list in order to
> > post messages to that mailing list. This is because of the UK Data
> > Protection laws. Only subscribe to these lists if you accept the legal
> > notice displayed on the relevant pages; by subscribing, you accept the
> > terms laid out in the legal notice. Answers will be copied to you.
>
> WTF? Did not we just have huge flamewar explaining this is untrue?

We wont have to care about any additional legal notices or whatever if the 
list moved to vger, would we ?
>
> >              6. Email attachments. [[36]rmk]
> >                 Please ensure that all attachments are plain text. There
> > is a limit of around 40KiB on the overall size of the message, so if you
> > want to send a large attachment, please upload it to a web site
>
> I thought limit was recently raised?
>
> >              10. Cross-posting between linux-arm* lists and other lists.
> > [[40]rmk] Please do not do this. Subscribers on other lists may not be
> > subscribed to the linux-arm lists, so when they try to reply to such a
> > message, they will receive a bounce. This is deemed by others to be rude
> > behaviour on the part of the person who originally cross-posted.
>
> Again, in recent flamewar you claimed crossposting is
> okay.

Crossposting doesn't seem to work much, I got rejects on LAK when I CCed it, 
but it might have been fixed already, it was a few weeks ago.

> 										Pavel

Cheers!
Marek