On 08/23/2017 07:46 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > Rubin, did you add the ?? > yes, somewhere it got reformated. > If so, that's how it works. The linux-kernel mailing lists are not > closed. Anyone can post an email to the list address, if it passes > the spam filter it will get forwarded to the subscribers. > > The subscribers will do a reply-all and your thread is off to the > races without you subscribing. > > Or let's say there is an ongoing thread on the SATA kernel mailing > list and they need to bring in a core developer that isn't subscribed > for some reason. > > They can just add him or her to the TO: line and going forward they > should be kept in the loop for that thread. Your not adding another list, your just adding a separate user. I usually add it to CC. What we do not do, normally, is allow a non-describer to post to a list, nor cross posting. That is chaos at best, and a relay hole for spam and worst. > > It's a nice model for managing a large number of specialists mailing > lists. No one wants to subscribe to all of them, but from time to > time people need to interact with the people on one of the specialist > email lists and don't want to have to > subscribe->participate->unsubscribe. > > Greg -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
