On 02/21/2017 10:39 AM, Mark Booth wrote:
It is NEVER acceptable to sign someone up to a mailing list without
their permission. You are lucky that I haven't automatically blocked
this list and started reporting every message from it as SPAM.
By all means require me to subscribe to the incubation list, but I
MUST be allowed to do that myself, in my own way. You do not know
which e-mail address I want to use for this mailing list, and I have
not given anyone permission to use this e-mail address in this way.
Although I sympathize with the theory of mailing-lists, I just believe
this answer lacks pragmatism and misses to think about the community:
* you're joining a community, having one mailing-list on by default is
not something surprising for a community. It's not an advertisement
service and the goal of the community is to have people cooperate with
as less effort as possible. Having people opt-out on one mailing-list is
a way to make the community more welcoming as it requires less steps to
be "in". It's a step forward in the perpetual goal of lowering the entry
barrier for upcoming and new contributors.
* there's a pretty visible unsubscribe link on emails. Clicking it is
simple as reporting it as spam.
* About email address, the address that's used is the same address
you're using on Bugzilla or Git to interact with other pieces of the
community. Taking it as default is clearly a good guess. However, you're
still free to unsubscribe and subscribe again with a more suitable
address I guess.
--
Mickael Istria
Eclipse developer for Red Hat Developers <http://developers.redhat.com>
My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com> - My Tweets
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