Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:26:07 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Mailing List Etiquette |
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> 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 > messages to that mailing list. This is because of the UK Data > Protection laws. Only subscribe to these lists if you accept the > legal notice displayed on the relevant pages; by subscribing, you > accept the terms laid out in the legal notice. Answers will be > copied to you.
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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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