Complete loss of subject heading is a minor annoyance? How about the mangling of the To address? When I get one of these, I cannot use any rules because the To address that my mail client sees is not that of ooo-dev but some hacked-up pseudo gmane address.
So it may be great to use ooo-dev from gmane, but it is not so great to be the beneficiary of that chaff as a subscriber on ooo-dev. I think folks having an NNTP and newsgroup-ish way of reading ooo-dev is a great thing. It duplicates the archiving, though. But more than that, I would rather it be done well and not in a way that disrupts the original mailing list. Especially not that. If it worked well, I would be tempted to use it. I have a different question. According to the information on GMANE, it takes someone who claims to be an administrator to offer up a mailing list for aggregation there. Who did that and where was it discussed here? I suspect I may have seen an off-hand mention but I had no idea what the consequences were at that point. Finally, wholesale harvesting of someone's e-mail list raises serious netiquette issues far beyond concerns for top posting, CC additions, etc. When did we consider what we expect of that and also what does it not being on Apache infrastructure raise as a concern? - Dennis PS: I just saw a mangled To address come through the LibreOffice developer list too. Had nothing to do with me. In this case, the message had no subject. And why am I being taken to task for honoring a practice that has already been discussed and encouraged here? (I.e., bracketed topics.) It wasn't my idea. Also, I was trying to put the new subject heading together with the previous discussion of the same topic. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Fisher [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 22:11 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [What?] Why and How did this reach my inbox? On Aug 22, 2011, at 8:44 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > Are you saying that the newsgroup, whatever it is, is designed to send > everything posted on it to ooo-dev ? And it subscribes to ooo-dev so it is > like an aggregator? Yes. And it is actually very handy. These services are searchable public repositories of many, many mailing lists. My experience is individuals that interact with the Apache POI lists via nabble all of the time. Subjects are never a problem. with these GMane emails of Larry's they end up in the same group because Apple Mail can tell they are from the same thread. So, subject changes haven't bothered me except actually for yours recently with [email] - but please this is an example of an annoyance that is not worth complaining about :-p > > I guess if it aggregated and allowed posting, it would end up being a > disconnected conversation if it didn't post here also. But then there's the > reply all problem because we are not really a newsgroup, it is a kind of > mirror that is the newsgroup. And it anonymizes stuff that it sends to us > and breaks our threads. Depends on your email client if it appears to break the thread or not. > > > I find that weird. And when the going gets tough the weird turn pro. > > Why don't we just offer an nntp feed of ooo-dev so that all they have to do > is subscribe to it in their news reader, whatever and wherever it is? This is much less work. As in Zero for the project. Thanks for asking these questions. Regards, Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Fisher [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 19:39 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [What?] Why and How did this reach my inbox? > > > On Aug 22, 2011, at 7:25 PM, 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. > > The mangled subject lines are a trouble, but excluding people who are on > nabble, gmane and other forum like aggregators would be bad for the community. > > Regards, > Dave > >> >> - Dennis >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Larry Gusaas [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 19:09 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [What?] Why and How did this reach my inbox? >> >> On 2011-08-22 7:45 PM Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >>> So we get two copies any time someone uses that news reader to make a reply? >> Only if the poster uses reply-all instead of only sending a reply to the >> gmane newgroup like I >> am doing. >> >>> Can we block the ones that come from the news group and only accept the >>> direct ones? >> If you blocked the news group posts from people post properly through the >> newgroup only would >> not make it to the list. >> >> >> _________________________________ >> Larry I. Gusaas >> Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada >> Website: http://larry-gusaas.com >> "An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind >> theirs." - Edgard Varese >> >> >
