begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 12:13:16PM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > >Last time we did that, I got so pissed off that I unsubscribed from > >announce entirely. I *strongly* recommend against such an approach. > > For pete's sake.... (Who is Pete anyway?)
Saint Peter. Duh. > >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. > > I disagree. Just because they get mail from two different from lists > doesn't mean we are spamming them. It's all from the same organization. I vehemently disagree. We are not special. We are not exempt from the rules we want others to follow. Claims otherwise should be met with derision and contempt. > >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. > > But they won't subscribe to the announce list which makes it pointless. And why would that be a concern? > Either we subscribe everyone to it or we just forget about it. I'm fine > with either one. Given those choices, I'd say forget about it. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
