Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
--On Sunday, July 18, 2004 4:20 PM -0400 Brian McCallister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I suspect that if 3 ASF'ers want to discuss a topic via email, and think a mailing list would help, there should be a mechanism to simply have it created, bang. Just my 2 cents =)
Mailing lists without PMC oversight should be treated with extreme caution. Lists without the necessary oversight might expose the ASF to unwanted liability.
Get real. How is that going to happen? Are you seriously suggesting that the ASF is responsible for what people post to lists?
The ASF isn't a personal soapbox medium: it's meant to facilitate collaborative software projects.
For example, this list (community@) is a *horrible* waste of time that adds little value: almost every topic here has a more appropriate list elsewhere in the ASF (or, ideally, outside of the ASF). But, people seem to use this list as a dumping ground and are often too lazy to think about what the 'proper' list is - instead they just post to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That is not an example of exposing ASF to unwanted liability.
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