Hi Rainer, On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: > Hi > > There is recently a lot of cross-posting happening on lyx-devel and > lyx-users which I think is a bit irritating and makes following > discussions difficult (luckily, and this includes myself, most > responders to cross-posted threads ignore that one should not cross-post > and discussions are complete on both lists...).
I agree that this is annoying. I wonder if it is best in these cases to continue cross-posting or if, e.g. the lyx-devel list is the correct place to only state "I'm moving this to lyx-devel" as a reply to lyx-users and then reply to the lyx-devel list only in a separate reply. > Nevertheless, I would like to know what the policy about cross-posting > is. If cross-posting is OK, the merging of the two mailing lists should > be considered, which might be a good idea in a relatively low traffic > mailing list? The other option would be to discourage cross-posting, > possibly even blocking mails to lyx-devel which are also posted to > lyx-users? Automatic blocking is an interesting idea. You got me thinking though... what about automatic blocking of the email entirely? With an automated response such as "cross-posting is discouraged for the following reasons... please pick the appropriate list". > I am not a list administrator and I don't want to start a big > discussion, so if nobody else objects, the status quo can be kept, Perhaps the first step is to put this in the list netiquette: http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists#toc7 Scott
