On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 04:21:27PM +0200, Solar Designer wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 03:39:26PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 12:26:50AM +0200, Jann Horn wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 6:48 PM Solar Designer <solar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > If 100% of the topics on linux-hardening are supposed to be a subset of > > > > what was on kernel-hardening, I think it'd be OK for me to provide the > > > > subscriber list to a vger admin, who would subscribe those people to > > > > linux-hardening. > > > > > > (if folks want to go that route, probably easier to subscribe the list > > > linux-hardening@ itself to kernel-hardening@ instead of syncing > > > subscriber lists?) > > > > Yeah, that would make things a bit simpler. Solar, would you be willing > > to do that? (Then I can tweak the wiki instructions a bit more.) > > Sure, I can do that. Should I? > > Per http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-hardening there are > currently 39 subscribers on the new list. I guess most of those are > also on kernel-hardening, and would start receiving two copies of > messages that are posted to kernel-hardening. I guess they would then > need to unsubscribe from kernel-hardening if they want to see the > content of both lists, or to unsubscribe from linux-hardening if they > changed their mind and only want the content of kernel-hardening. I > think this is still not too many people, so this is reasonable; if we > were to do it later, we'd inconvenience more people. Hm, I guess I was thinking about this only from the perspective of Message-Id handling: the duplicates wouldn't be noticed -- but of course I've been struggling with IMAP vs Gmail for so long I've almost forgotten how actual email works. ;) Yeah, the duplicate emails would be pretty bad. Let's not do this for now, and if it becomes an actual issue we can change it then. -- Kees Cook
