From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:56:38 +0100 (CET) > David, could I send you the list of subscribers on the alsa-devel list (in > a private e-mail) to move mailing list to vger without bothering all users > to resubscribe again (we did it several months ago, so the subscriber list > is quite clean)? I will redirect alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx address then > to alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (if it does not break any vger rules or spam > filtering on vger) to preserve alsa-devel list e-mail. We don't do this because: 1) If the user doesn't do the subscribe, they won't know how to unsubscribe. If you think this isn't an issue, after 10 years of co-running vger I can tell you it's a huge issue as they just spam the list owner, with requests to be removed. 2) Users generally get upset when you subscribe them to a site they did not get asked to be subscribed to. And yes this is true even if it's the same mailing list just at a new location. I apply this rule unilaterally to all new mailing lists hosted at vger, I'm not just singling out this case, believe me :-) So please ask the folks on the existing list to subscribe to the new one. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
