From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Let's shut down bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:49:57 -0500 Organization: disorganization Message-ID: References: Reply-To: sds@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134413929 21209 80.91.229.2 (12 Dec 2005 18:58:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:58:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 12 19:58:45 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Elspe-0005qN-00 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:55:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Elsq9-00059s-2N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:56:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ElpmS-0002jz-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:40:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ElpOJ-00040t-Uz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:15:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Elp7D-0000Tq-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:57:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Elp8x-0007FX-7O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:59:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Elp4A-0001om-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:54:14 +0100 Original-Received: from fw-ext.alphatech.com ([198.112.236.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:54:14 +0100 Original-Received: from sds by fw-ext.alphatech.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:54:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: fw-ext.alphatech.com Mail-Copies-To: never X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9+YAPAQc3PjrfpRB22jHqLGZNto= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:47549 Archived-At: > * Richard M. Stallman [2005-12-11 17:57:03 -0500]: > > In years past, I actually used gnu.emacs.bug a fair amount to > report bugs and submit feature requests. If I were just getting > into Emacs now, I doubt I'd bother, given the state of this > newsgroup. > > I can see why you might hesitate to _read_ a list with a lot of spam, > but why, rationally, would the amount of spam affect your decision to > post to the list? I don't see how it makes any difference. A spam-only mailing list will not be read by a sensible person, as you yourself concede, so why would a sensible person post to a list that is not read by sensible people? -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k http://www.iris.org.il http://www.jihadwatch.org/ http://www.dhimmi.com/ http://pmw.org.il/ http://truepeace.org http://www.mideasttruth.com/ Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for a lifetime.