From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gmane and gmail
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:34:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181213222816072071349@bob.proulx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871s6ymsez.fsf@roylemmon.com>
Roy Lemmon wrote:
> What I have done is keep subscribed to the mailing list but turned
> off sending email. I could do this in the mailman interface.
Note that having nomail turned on is the same as not being subscribed
at all. It is intended for people who go on vacation and want to
suspend email for a while and then turn it back on again when they
return without needing to revalidate their email address.
If you never intend to receive email it would keep the database
cleaner to simply unsubscribe. Periodically I clean out dead
addresses that appear to have been offline for a long time. Otherwise
the list of addresses in the mailing list grows without bounds over
time.
Note that there is no need to subscribe in order to post. The gnu.org
lists are all open lists (except for some few exceptions) and anyone
may post to them.
> I agree gmane and nntp is better for the mailing lists.
It is a matter of personal taste.
Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-14 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-03 9:55 gmane and gmail Roy Lemmon
2018-12-03 16:38 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-12-03 17:28 ` Roy Lemmon
2018-12-14 5:34 ` Bob Proulx [this message]
2018-12-03 17:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-02-21 6:44 ` Van L
2019-03-09 11:02 ` 황병희
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