From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: replying to Debbugs Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:21:36 +0000 Message-ID: <20141016092136.GB3421@acm.acm> References: <20141015154039.GC3093@acm.acm> <87y4sh2rsj.fsf@gmx.de> <87bnpdxnve.fsf_-_@violet.siamics.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413451684 32012 80.91.229.3 (16 Oct 2014 09:28:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:28:04 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 11:27:57 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XehLg-0008Jl-GI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:27:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49397 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XehLg-0005H2-2O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 05:27:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46718) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XehLF-00055w-98 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 05:27:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XehL7-0008Hn-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 05:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:24407 helo=mail.muc.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XehL7-0008FK-Du for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 05:27:21 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 68089 invoked by uid 3782); 16 Oct 2014 09:27:17 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9518029.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.128.41]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:27:16 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3625 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Oct 2014 09:21:36 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175446 Archived-At: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 03:16:05AM -0400, Glenn Morris wrote: > Richard Stallman wrote: > > If we are going to discontinue the newsgroup, we should inform users > > who use that newsgroup. > Nobody uses it. It is unknown how many people use it. > A handful of times a year, someone tries to post something to it. It > gets trapped in the bug-gnu-emacs mailman moderation, and I reject it > with a request to resend it by mail. How often does such a poster actually resubmit via email? > (Alan is also a list moderator and approves his own messages.) > If it was up to me, we'd simply make that rejection automatic and get on > with life. You'd shut down the entire newgroup, I think you said somewhere else on the thread. But at the moment it's consuming only machine resources (apart from the efforts of the moderators). It would take effort to shut down and is currently useful (no matter how little). -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).