Re: [PATCH] Update email address for stable patch submission

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 03:14:21PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:07:38 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 
> >> > The stable@kernel.org email address has been replaced with the
> >> > stable@vger.kernel.org mailing list.  Change the stable kernel rules to
> >> > reference the new list instead of the semi-defunct email alias.
> >> 
> >> Does this mean it already stopped working?  I recently sent pathces
> >> there but neither got an ACK nor a bounce or similar.
> >> 
> > 
> > It was bouncing (and noticably so) as of a week ago but I believe hpa has 
> > since setup an alias to point to stable@vger.kernel.org.  Linus cc'd his 
> > own commit to it yesterday, a84a79e4d369, so as long as you didn't get a 
> > bounce email it should have gone through.
> 
> Not true.  VGER eats them silently because the forward from
> stable@kernel.org contains headers that are commonly found in
> looped-back postings which we regexp block at vger.  If vger responded
> in some way it would just exacerbate any real list loop.
> 
> Warty didn't thing he could fix it easily, so we decided it was most easy
> to just go straight to solely using stable@vger.kernel.org and just shut
> down stable@kernel.org

That's fine with me, and if stable@kernel.org is removed, it's best to
see the bounce-back happen, instead of them disappearing quietly.

greg k-h