Author: Peter Bowyer Date: To: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] Announcements (was Re: Exim,
and other Mail Systems -- Conference 2007,
Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers)
On 29/03/07, Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@???> wrote: > On Thursday 29 March 2007 17:44, Peter Bowyer wrote:
> > On 29/03/07, Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@???> wrote:
> > > Since I find it rather pointless to be subscribed to exim-announce when
> > > all announcements are cross-posted to at least exim-users, I performed
> > > some quick calculations on the sets of subscribers of the mentioned
> > > lists:
> >
> > Announcements are only cross-posted if the posted deliberately does
> > so. One needs to be subscribed to both to ensure complete coverage.
>
> Yes, but my point, if any, is that cross-posting seems to be the standard, and
> that *if* people leave -announce for that reason, then the standard is
> further reinforced - not cross-posting ceases to be an option.
>
> Since the exim-announce list description says
>
> "This list is no longer gated into the exim-users list - you must explicitly
> subscribe to this list if you wish to receive announce mail."
>
> I respectfully ask that announcements not be cross-posted (not even by
> Philip!), or that said paragraph be changed.
In return, I respectfully suggest that this conversation has already
used up more bandwidth than several months worth of crossposted
announcements (= about 2). I don't think anything's broken here.
