I give up. I don't care anymore if anyone receives my e-mail or not.
Frankly, the pain and suffering trying to "participate" in the open fora
is simply not worth it. The current "administration" simply doesn't
care about "participation", they just want to minimize their workload.
Fine. I'll minimize my "workload" and go back to contribution in the
way I still can -- by writing code.
- Garrett
Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
>> Simon Phipps wrote:
>>>
>>> On May 11, 2009, at 17:30, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not sure I understand what you mean by repost.
>>>
>>> When I post a message to an OpenSolaris list and it bounces or is
>>> held for moderation, I just send it again from a different address.
>>> Rinse & repeat until it works. When a list is moderated this
>>> approach is more tedious as I have to go cancel the earlier attempts.
>>>
>>> Totally, impossibly broken.
>>>
>>> S.
>>>
>> Well, if the list was properly moderated, you could simply wait for
>> the moderators to allow it. A *smart* moderator would just add the
>> address to the whitelist the first time it occurred. So you'd only
>> have to do deal with this once, ever. (But you'd have to wait for it.)
>>
>> When my message bounces, I often just give up. This does mean that
>> some lists miss out on key comments I make to their ARC cases. But I
>> guess this was an active choice that the list owners made, so they
>> get (or rather don't get) what they deserve.
>
> Hi Garrett -
>
> I'm guessing you hit this a lot due to your ARC duties, right? Where
> someone
> sends in a case for review & copies their own iteam or interest alias,
> but
> *you* can't send mails to their alias.
>
> This seems like something the ARC could document around that would help,
> something like:
> "i-team alias (must be postable by anyone during review period):"
>
> on the 1-pager form.
>
> of course, someone submitting the case may not have control over the
> alias.
>
> Someone had before suggested that, if there was such a way, it would be
> nice if any address subscribed to any opensolaris.org alias could post
> to all others, but I don't know enough about our mailmain instance to
> know
> if such intelligence in the tool is possible.
>
> Valerie
