On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:39 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > --- > > This happened because I replied to a mail that had > [email protected] in CC. This I think is a good thing, > cross-posting helps to get relevant messages to relevant people.
Actually, cross-posting is strongly discouraged in the MeeGo mailing list guidleines. You can see our guidelines for more details: http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines Cross-posting results in duplicate messages and multiple unconnected conversations happening across mailing lists. We encourage you to pick the mailing list that is the most appropriate and have a single conversation on a single list. > However, in order for cross-posting to be useful people should be able > to send mails to lists they are not subscribed to, otherwise the > threads will be messed up. > > One way to achieve this is to only require a subscription to _one_ > list, in order to allow sending messages to all of them. I have never > seen anybody doing this though. > > My preferred option is to allow anybody to post, but go through > moderation if not subscribed. This welcomes everybody into the > discussion, and even allows for cross-posting between lists that are > not meego.com. Many mailing lists, like all the ones in vger do this: > http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html > > What do you think? I gave this quite a bit of thought, and I think it's fair to make the person sending the message decide whether they really want to send it to the list. This puts the decision on the user - by signing up, they are taking the responsibility for understanding what they signed up for. We've already had one serious case of someone sending a big chunk of proprietary stuff to a list because he didn't realize it was a public list. In that case, his message wasn't posted because he wasn't subscribed, and he was pretty happy about it. Moderation also has some problems because the moderator is taking the responsibilty for deciding what the user meant to do. The way we have it set up now, we're putting the decision in the users' hands, which seems fair to me. All of this is clearly documented in our mailing list guidelines, and in the email they get if they send something to a list where they aren't subscribed. Either way has pros and cons, but this way seems to be working for most people. Regards, Dawn _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
