From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Mail posting in newsgroups in Gnus
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 05:45:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8660uh715p.fsf@student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20160513183937477161621@bob.proulx.com
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> I just want to say here that mail isn't instant
> messenger or IRC.
Thank God it is much better!
> Having autoreplies enabled previously has landed
> lists.gnu.org onto the DNSBLs as a bad citizen
> previously. Therefore autoreplies are not allowed.
Indeed :$
Apart from that security issue, autoreplies are often
an annoyance, typically carrying a huge bulk of text
with tons of mail addresses you should only use, if
you want even more autoreplied blah blah in
your mailbox!
> Also one need not be subscribed in order to post.
> GNU mailing lists are mostly either for bug reports
> or for getting help such as this list.
Mailing lists today could in theory also carry
a culture, like a pleasant place where you can be
active with technology, like the BBSs of the
telephone/early modem age, and the newsgroups of the
Usenet/UUCP age... Despite persistent efforts not the
least from Yours Truly in this endeavor, it is 50/50
if such a culture actually exists :_(
> Forcing people to subscribe in order to post a bug
> report is too restrictive. Therefore like most free
> libre community mailing lists our lists are open to
> non-subscribers.
It is too restrictive but it is not uncommon for
people even with advanced technology to not have
a decent mailing list, demand subscription, and/or
otherwise restrict Gmane access. Examples are the
gnuplot and GMT people (Generic Mapping Tools) - the
GMT are the worst, as they don't even have a mailing
list, but instead refer to a web forum! Which, on the
other hand, is alive and I got good help immediately.
But anyway!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-14 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-13 10:11 Mail posting in newsgroups N. Raghavendra
2016-05-13 10:48 ` Mail posting in newsgroups in Gnus N. Raghavendra
2016-05-14 0:55 ` Bob Proulx
2016-05-14 3:06 ` Jude DaShiell
2016-05-14 3:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-14 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-14 18:23 ` Bob Proulx
2016-05-14 3:45 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2016-05-14 7:25 ` N. Raghavendra
2016-05-14 13:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-14 18:26 ` Bob Proulx
2016-05-15 22:33 ` Bob Proulx
2016-05-16 15:31 ` N. Raghavendra
[not found] ` <mailman.2793.1463187329.7477.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-14 9:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-14 9:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-15 22:25 ` Bob Proulx
2016-05-16 7:54 ` tomas
2016-05-18 3:07 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.2864.1463351125.7477.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-16 10:03 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <mailman.2911.1463419198.7477.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-16 17:44 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-16 18:43 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.2951.1463424214.7477.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-05-16 19:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-14 9:57 ` N. Raghavendra
2016-05-14 13:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-14 12:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-05-16 20:26 ` Mail posting in newsgroups Michael Heerdegen
2016-05-17 2:45 ` N. Raghavendra
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2016-05-13 10:38 Mail posting in newsgroups in Gnus N. Raghavendra
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