Mailing list changes

Mailing list changes

[Jackson Fox]

With regards to the new mailing list system, is there a reason this change
could not have been announced BEFORE the change was made?  I understand the
need and desire for a quick change, and in that regards it appears that
things went well.

However, I was rather surprised to find my mailboxes filling up with gentoo
mailing list mail (which I had on hold) this morning.  Had I been on
vacation (as I was until recently) my mailbox would have quickly filled up
and been unable to receive to new mail (as I do not have a large email
quota).

In the future, PLEASE let subscribers know when this is going to happen so
they can take appropriate measures.  I think it was very irresponsible of
the Gentoo team to do this in the manner in which they did.

Sincerely,
Jackson Fox


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Re: Mailing list changes

[Eric Renfro]

On Monday 04 November 2002 12:29 pm, Jackson Fox wrote:
> With regards to the new mailing list system, is there a reason this change
> could not have been announced BEFORE the change was made?  I understand the
> need and desire for a quick change, and in that regards it appears that
> things went well.
>
> However, I was rather surprised to find my mailboxes filling up with gentoo
> mailing list mail (which I had on hold) this morning.  Had I been on
> vacation (as I was until recently) my mailbox would have quickly filled up
> and been unable to receive to new mail (as I do not have a large email
> quota).
>
> In the future, PLEASE let subscribers know when this is going to happen so
> they can take appropriate measures.  I think it was very irresponsible of
> the Gentoo team to do this in the manner in which they did.

I strongly agree with this.

My inbox got up to over 100 messages in my inbox, and me going, why am I 
suddenly so popular? Then to realize, it was gentoo-user's mailing-list, a 
mainstream highly-active list, being stuffed in my normal inbox, because 
Mailman used a standard List-Id header, while ezmlm, uses practically no 
standard methods at all. 

Generally, if a mailing-list follows no standards, I unsubscribe to them 
swiftly. I've just unsubscribed to these lists due to this. A mailing-list is 
supposed to organize mail at the server. When this isn't done, a mailing-list 
is broken or just not worth using. (for example, I don't subscribe to 
Marjodomo lists. They still follow no standards at all..)

But, anyway, this is my loud complaint, and my goodbye to the lists. Bad move.
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Mailing list changes

[Erwann Corvellec]

Eric Renfro wrote:
> Mailman used a standard List-Id header, while ezmlm, uses practically no 
> standard methods at all. 

  It does. Every email contains this header line :
Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm

  So you just have to test if "Mailing-List" contains "gentoo-dev"... ;)

PS : I agree with you guys complaining about the change without notice.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Mailing list changes

[Henti Smith]

> > Mailman used a standard List-Id header, while ezmlm, uses practically no 
> > standard methods at all. 
> 
>   It does. Every email contains this header line :
> Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm

ezmlm has got the functions of the maillist-list ... but it's not being used. 
I have been on many ezmlm lists and even ran a few myself ... it works fine .. 
just needs to be setup correctly .. 

don't knock the software when it's not setup according to standards! 

Henti 

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