On Sunday, July 18, 2010 15:51:11 Petteri Räty wrote:
> On 07/18/2010 10:37 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Sunday, July 18, 2010 11:20:57 Petteri Räty wrote:
> >> On 07/18/2010 07:42 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>> On Saturday, July 17, 2010 23:47:39 Alex Alexander wrote:
> >>>> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 03:13:22AM +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. wrote:
> >>>>> I cross-posted this email to both gentoo-dev and gentoo-council mls
> >>>>> as Brian used the former and Alex started this thread in the latter.
> >>>>> Which ML do we want to use?
> >>>> 
> >>>> IMO we should be using gentoo-council@... for this.
> >>>> Afterall, we are talking about the Council meeting agenda.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Any topic that needs further discussion before a meeting should be
> >>>> moved to its own -dev thread anyway.
> >>> 
> >>> reality is that this probably wont work in practice.  cc-ing both lists
> >>> isnt a problem and lets devs know that the council is indeed doing
> >>> work.
> >> 
> >> Cross posting is annoying if you are on both lists and can lead to the
> >> fragmentation of the thread.
> > 
> > get a real mail client then.  any modern one worth using handles
> > duplicate mail ids just fine.
> 
> Yes the first can be worked around (although archives still have
> multiple copies). The second is a worse problem in my opinion. The
> current rules are not to cross post. If you are not happy with them you
> should start a thread on changing them.

there was a debate on the issue, but there was never a clear edict on it.  so 
dont quote the situation as if there was.
-mike