Re: Mailing List Etiquette
From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Aug 21 2009 - 03:26:15 EST
> This message is sent to this mailing list once a week.
>
Could we maybe reduce the frequency of this spam a little bit?
> 1. Subscription requirements. [[24]rmk]
> Recently, we have had to impose a restriction on the mailing lists.
> You must be subscribed to the mailing list in order to post
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WTF? Did not we just have huge flamewar explaining this is untrue?
> 6. Email attachments. [[36]rmk]
> Please ensure that all attachments are plain text. There is a limit
> of around 40KiB on the overall size of the message, so if you want
> to send a large attachment, please upload it to a
> web site
I thought limit was recently raised?
> 10. Cross-posting between linux-arm* lists and other lists. [[40]rmk]
> Please do not do this. Subscribers on other lists may not be
> subscribed to the linux-arm lists, so when they try to reply to
> such a message, they will receive a bounce. This is deemed by
> others to be rude behaviour on the part of the person who
> originally cross-posted.
Again, in recent flamewar you claimed crossposting is
okay.
Pavel
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