From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OadHA-00055i-IM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:28:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 528D6E0B78; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:28:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE25E0B6D for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:27:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 213981B4008 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:27:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.225 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.225 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.226, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id tJJ1JT-tLlqY for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:27:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3EB81B4024 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:27:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OadGb-0002BT-Ec for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:27:29 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.22.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:27:29 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:27:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Upcoming Council meeting on July 26th, 1900 UTC Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:27:21 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20100717220501.GA18099@linuxized.com> <20100717233326.GA28010@hrair> <4C427152.2090707@gentoo.org> <20100718080618.3ac114b3@gentoo.org> <20100718162121.634932cd@gentoo.org> <4C431ECC.10409@gentoo.org> <4C433D4F.1090209@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-22-224.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies; GIT a971f44 branch-testing) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 514c709d-360e-4472-98c2-b8b224f3e995 X-Archives-Hash: d68abb54f7e4adffc994ed7acc7873a1 Dale posted on Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:43:43 -0500 as excerpted: > It always seemed to me that people want to send threads to -project for > them to just go away. Once a thread goes to -project, it just whithers > on the vine and nothing much happens. There may be a need for -project > but if almost no one is going to be there, there is no point sending > threads to it. Maybe developers should be required to subscribe to > -project so that even if a thread is sent there, they still get to see > the postings and deal with the issues that are being raised. I think that was the point. Having the list and telling people the topic= =20 belongs there is the polite way of telling them their output's better=20 directed to /dev/null (which is of course the the geeky *ix way of saying= =20 "shutup already!"), without actually restricting someone's right to make=20 their point... just that they might as well be posting to their private=20 diary for the number of others that'll actually read it. --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman