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.
I've gone through the kplug-announce archives and found that in the last
year and a half there have been a total of 33 messages sent [1] with a
maximum of 4 messages in one month. Most of the messages deal with
either the main meeting or the installfest (Linux Lab).
The announce list is moderated with a limited number of posters. About
half the posts are from me concerning either the main meeting or the
installlfest.
So what you are saying is that you would rather get three identical
separate e-mails from me, one each on kplug-newbie, kplug-list, and
kplug-lpsg, rather than a single message from kplug-announce.
You seem to have an abnormally low threshold for pain. And possibly a
faulty memory as well.
Gus
[1] <http://www.kernel-panic.org/pipermail/kplug-announce/>
Here is the raw data in the form of month, number of messages:
2004
Aug 4
Sep 0
Oct 1
Nov 2
Dec 0
2005
Jan 3
Feb 0
Mar 0
Apr 4
May 2
Jun 2
Jul 1
Aug 0
Sep 2
Oct 2
Nov 4
Dec 1
2006
Jan 0
Feb 2
Mar 3
Apr 0
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