[U-Boot] REJECT: Too many recipients to the message

Wolfgang Denk
2009-06-01T22:00:21Z

Dear T Ziomek,

In message <20090601210846.GJ8553@email.mot.com> you wrote:
>
> > > > > How about reconfiguring the list software instead?
> > > >
> > > > I see no reason for that yet.
>
> I see no reason, at least none articulated as of yet, for the current
> configuration.

The current configurations is (1) the default one, and (2) pretty
useful to detect list abuse that has not been cought yet by other
means.

> > We neever before had any such problems. Currently these are caused
> > because some messages have 5 (or more) samsung.com addresses listed
> > on Cc:; for example, "[PATCH] The omap3 L2 cache enable/disable
> > function to omap3 dependent code" has 6 such addresses on Cc:
>
> And what problem does that cause?

Such messages need manual moderation which (1) delays the messages and
(2) causes additional work to the list moderator (me).

> > I doubt that this is really necessary.
>
> "Necessary" is in the eye of the beholder here. And IMHO the presump-
> tion should be that the sender of an email is addressing it properly.
> Absent either (a) clear, significant abuse of emails' recipients or (b)
> a measurable and significant impact on the list provider [1], let people
> CC who they consider appropriate and let the list server send emails to
> whomever it is asked to send emails to.
>
> [1] E.g. exceeding bandwidth quotas, mail delivery being delayed for
> hours, etc.

Messages get delayed, and they exceed my patience quota ;-)

> > In this specific case, a
> > company-internal distribution list would probably be more
> > appropriate.
>
> I don't understand what you envision here, or what it would accomplish.

They could Cc: u-boot-addicts at foo.com (i. e. just one address) and
distribute this internally to anybody who might be interested.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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