Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:01:18PM > -0700: >> On Apr 10, 2006, at 8:52 PM, Carl Lowenstein wrote: >> >>> It would be nice to receive announcements on only one list. Not four >>> times if you happen to be subscribed to all of them. That's the only >>> downside I see to blind automatic propagation. >> The only way I see to do that is to periodically synchronize the >> membership of the -announce list with the sum contents of the other >> lists. I'm not sure mailman was designed to handle such a cascading >> membership logic (though it would be very nice). > > Last time we did that, I got so pissed off that I unsubscribed from > announce entirely. I *strongly* recommend against such an approach. > > Besides, auto-subscribing like that puts us firmly on the side of the > spammers. The only right way to put someone on a mailing list is the > double-opt-in. Opt-out lists are fundamentally wrong. > > If people want to subscribe to an announce list, let 'em subscribe to > an announce list. If not enough people subscribe to it, well, then > there obviously isn't enough interest to make it worthwhile, and the > idea should be dropped, no matter how appealing it may be to a few.
Well, you probably have a good point! Trying to do (gratituous) "favors" often is counter-productive if not downright damaging to the main task. So, on reflection, I think I agree that subscription-required is reasonable. Now, however, we might consider ways to make it easier for people to _also_ subscribe to the announce-list when signing up for any other. ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
