Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: linux-arm-kernel useless for development (was Re: Your message to Linux-arm-kernel awaits moderator approval) | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:02:10 -0700 |
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On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 13:40 +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:59:01PM +0530, David John wrote: > > I think the basis of Pavel's complaint is that the ARM mailing list is > > difficult to work with for casual users who might want to forward say, > > a simple bug report. > If only it were as simple as that. [] > I'm not willing to spend vast sums of money in > the legal domain to sort this issue out. > Neither am I willing to take a chance.
What chances are those?
> And no, moving the list outside the EU domain doesn't relieve any > of the lawful issues unless (as I understand the law) someone outside > the EU were to run the list. And people would have to independently > subscribe to it - I wouldn't be able to export the existing subscriber > list outside the EU.
I suspect a vger based ARM list would not require you to "run" it.
Perhaps you overestimate the value of the arm subscriber database as well as the work involved to subscribe to a list.
Adding a "click this to subscribe to the new list" to the mailing list trailer would work reasonably well.
> Now, people here can tell me I'm wrong, but they aren't in the legal > profession... Would you get a gardener to fix your gas boiler, or > would you get a qualified and registered gas engineer in?
Perhaps not using the gas boiler is another option.
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