From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13943 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Nov 2002 21:09:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Received: (qmail 13934 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2002 21:09:38 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Eric Renfro Organization: Myrddin Computers & Designs To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: Mailing list changes Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 14:43:44 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <012d01c28430$0bc769f0$6401a8c0@rabbit> In-Reply-To: <012d01c28430$0bc769f0$6401a8c0@rabbit> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200211041443.44935.psi-jack@myrddincd.com> X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *188o4Y-0004Vu-00*0igP.89lJR6* X-Archives-Salt: bf5acc93-4b81-4277-a270-5d456efd5a1a X-Archives-Hash: 04b0780282803ea4e5a2a70176b61dc8 On Monday 04 November 2002 12:29 pm, Jackson Fox wrote: > With regards to the new mailing list system, is there a reason this cha= nge > 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 ge= ntoo > 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=20 suddenly so popular? Then to realize, it was gentoo-user's mailing-list, = a=20 mainstream highly-active list, being stuffed in my normal inbox, because=20 Mailman used a standard List-Id header, while ezmlm, uses practically no=20 standard methods at all.=20 Generally, if a mailing-list follows no standards, I unsubscribe to them=20 swiftly. I've just unsubscribed to these lists due to this. A mailing-lis= t is=20 supposed to organize mail at the server. When this isn't done, a mailing-= list=20 is broken or just not worth using. (for example, I don't subscribe to=20 Marjodomo lists. They still follow no standards at all..) But, anyway, this is my loud complaint, and my goodbye to the lists. Bad = move. -- Eric Renfro Myrddin Computers & Designs - CEO/President Sales: sales@myrddincd.com Fax: (775) 243-4535 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list