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On Monday 04 November 2002 12:29 pm, Jackson Fox wrote: |
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> With regards to the new mailing list system, is there a reason this change |
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> could not have been announced BEFORE the change was made? I understand the |
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> need and desire for a quick change, and in that regards it appears that |
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> things went well. |
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> However, I was rather surprised to find my mailboxes filling up with gentoo |
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> mailing list mail (which I had on hold) this morning. Had I been on |
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> vacation (as I was until recently) my mailbox would have quickly filled up |
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> and been unable to receive to new mail (as I do not have a large email |
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> quota). |
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> In the future, PLEASE let subscribers know when this is going to happen so |
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> they can take appropriate measures. I think it was very irresponsible of |
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> the Gentoo team to do this in the manner in which they did. |
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I strongly agree with this. |
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My inbox got up to over 100 messages in my inbox, and me going, why am I |
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suddenly so popular? Then to realize, it was gentoo-user's mailing-list, a |
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mainstream highly-active list, being stuffed in my normal inbox, because |
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Mailman used a standard List-Id header, while ezmlm, uses practically no |
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standard methods at all. |
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Generally, if a mailing-list follows no standards, I unsubscribe to them |
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swiftly. I've just unsubscribed to these lists due to this. A mailing-list is |
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supposed to organize mail at the server. When this isn't done, a mailing-list |
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is broken or just not worth using. (for example, I don't subscribe to |
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Marjodomo lists. They still follow no standards at all..) |
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But, anyway, this is my loud complaint, and my goodbye to the lists. Bad move. |
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Eric Renfro |
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Myrddin Computers & Designs - CEO/President |
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Sales: sales@×××××××××.com |
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Fax: (775) 243-4535 |
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