On Sun, 2 Oct 2022 22:20:40 +0000 "Artem S. Tashkinov" <aros@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Opt-in will work, except I've no idea how to make it work. Mass email > all the kernel developers and politely invite them to sign up? Most will > simply ignore it. Why not? The people who will ignore it will be the same people you are asking to go and unsubscribe. But at least with just a single email invite all they need to do to not be set up is to ignore a single email. For those that want to be involved, they will make the effort to do so. > > It's been mentioned here several times already that even collecting > their public email addresses in public git logs could be considered illegal. I would do it with the MAINTAINERS file if you were to do that. The purpose of the MAINTAINERS file is to send email to those listed. -- Steve