I guess any questions about who is subscribed here need no longer be asked, because we have no idea who is subscribed via one of these aggregations.
Interesting. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Brown [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 19:43 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [What?] Why and How did this reach my inbox? Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > And why should we accept newsgroup posts the same as posts from subscribers > to this list? This list is not a newsgroup, but the gmane newsgroup creates > the effect of subscribers without they're being subscribed here. > > Why should we be interested in that? Especially with those mangled subject > lines. > > - Dennis > Dennis, Lets not add more blocks to people that what to help here. Gmane is another way for people to connect to the mailing list. Mailing list, Gmane and forums are way that people help and work together without forcing people into something they do not want or need. OOo and LibO both have used the Gmane gateway for mailing list, I am sure there are others. It would seem that the ASF already uses the gateway so why not take advantage of it? Andy
