Dear T Ziomek, In message <20090601210846.gj8...@email.mot.com> you wrote: > > > > > > How about reconfiguring the list software instead? > > > > > > > > I see no reason for that yet. > > I see no reason, at least none articulated as of yet, for the current > configuration.
The current configurations is (1) the default one, and (2) pretty useful to detect list abuse that has not been cought yet by other means. > > We neever before had any such problems. Currently these are caused > > because some messages have 5 (or more) samsung.com addresses listed > > on Cc:; for example, "[PATCH] The omap3 L2 cache enable/disable > > function to omap3 dependent code" has 6 such addresses on Cc: > > And what problem does that cause? Such messages need manual moderation which (1) delays the messages and (2) causes additional work to the list moderator (me). > > I doubt that this is really necessary. > > "Necessary" is in the eye of the beholder here. And IMHO the presump- > tion should be that the sender of an email is addressing it properly. > Absent either (a) clear, significant abuse of emails' recipients or (b) > a measurable and significant impact on the list provider [1], let people > CC who they consider appropriate and let the list server send emails to > whomever it is asked to send emails to. > > [1] E.g. exceeding bandwidth quotas, mail delivery being delayed for > hours, etc. Messages get delayed, and they exceed my patience quota ;-) > > In this specific case, a > > company-internal distribution list would probably be more > > appropriate. > > I don't understand what you envision here, or what it would accomplish. They could Cc: u-boot-addi...@foo.com (i. e. just one address) and distribute this internally to anybody who might be interested. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de I used to be indecisive, now I'm not sure. _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot