On 29/03/07, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 29 March 2007 17:44, Peter Bowyer wrote: > > On 29/03/07, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since I find it rather pointless to be subscribed to exim-announce when > > > all announcements are cross-posted to at least exim-users, I performed > > > some quick calculations on the sets of subscribers of the mentioned > > > lists: > > > > Announcements are only cross-posted if the posted deliberately does > > so. One needs to be subscribed to both to ensure complete coverage. > > Yes, but my point, if any, is that cross-posting seems to be the standard, and > that *if* people leave -announce for that reason, then the standard is > further reinforced - not cross-posting ceases to be an option. > > Since the exim-announce list description says > > "This list is no longer gated into the exim-users list - you must explicitly > subscribe to this list if you wish to receive announce mail." > > I respectfully ask that announcements not be cross-posted (not even by > Philip!), or that said paragraph be changed.
In return, I respectfully suggest that this conversation has already used up more bandwidth than several months worth of crossposted announcements (= about 2). I don't think anything's broken here. Peter -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
