Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM: Mailing lists have moved | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:02:01 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 17:31 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Contrary to what you expect to be > the minimum level of intelligence required to subscribe to development > mailing list, a huge number of them subsequently flooded the list > with messages saying 'please unsubscribe me please' or the like. > Needless to say, there was a clear instruction on the bottom of each > mail telling you how to unsubscribe.
Hm. There's no accounting for the stupidity of the human animal.
We considered doing it as a mass _invitation_ (which needs the subscriber to click the link to confirm) rather than a mass subscription. In general, I think it's better to err on the side of inclusion -- so I decided against that because I thought too many people wouldn't notice it and would fall off the lists as a result. Perhaps that was the wrong decision, but I suspect nothing is gained now by going back and changing things, even if I _did_ have the required information.
Even with the notification and the first major thread being "ARM Mailing lists have moved", you're right that there are probably a few people who are _so_ stupid that they can't manage to work it out. I've sent a mail with words of one syllable or fewer to each list, which might hopefully help -- but I'm sure there'll still be some.
When that happens, we'll unsubscribe them -- and send in the ninjas to ensure they don't accidentally breed.
-- dwmw2
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