Request to mailing list discuss rejected regarding "Re: Where have all the "fastdebug" builds gone?"

Ulf Zibis Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de
Thu Nov 10 20:09:36 UTC 2011


Am 10.11.2011 15:04, schrieb Dalibor Topic:
> On 11/10/11 2:25 PM, Ulf Zibis wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> as discuss at openjdk.java.net was in the cc-list of those 3 posts, I just did "answer to all", as I thought my post would be interesting to all participants.
> While that is an understandable opinion on the side of any e-mail author, in practice it is very rare that any single
> e-mail message is interesting to all participants on any single mailing list, not to mention on multiple ones. See
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Crossposting .
>
>> I think, list moderators should accept such posts from un-subscribed senders, to avoid communication thread gaps.
> No.
>
> As a list moderator for a couple of lists, I should point out that I almost never moderate any posts through, with
> the one exception being mercurial commit messages, since missing those confuses people about commits.
>
>> What is the right behaviour here from posters side?
> Subscribe to a list in order to post to it.
I recently found out, that I could disable email delivery to me.
So now, subscribed to the list, I can CC to it without overflow in my email account.

Thanks your your clarification Dalibor.

-Ulf

>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic



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