2009/1/20 Aidan Skinner <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Jonathan Robie > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Lahiru Gunathilake wrote: >>> >>> Hi Martin, >>> >>> Yeah, we did that explicitly to get some more Google hits :-) >>> >> >> +1 >> >> And it also helps anyone who happens to get a mail from our list or find it >> on the Internet, and wants to know where to go for more. > > -1 > > It's really ugly and the list info is already in the message headers. > > - Aidan > > -- > Apache Qpid - World Domination through Advanced Message Queueing > http://qpid.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation > Project: http://qpid.apache.org > Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected] > >
Whilst I'm not totally against a footer per say the enabling of the footer without a vote or much discussion on the content is what is most against the Apache way in my view. If the point of the change is to game Google then I would be very surprised if Google actually farmed mailing lists sites for urls. Sending few 100,000 emails to a list to gain page rank sounds like something Google would have already caught on to. If we are to have a footer I would at least suggest the following two links on both lists. The number of people that ask how to unsubscribe is > 0 so having the details in the email would be most useful. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <list>[email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: <list>[email protected] As for having the project name and url my quick look through the mailing lists I'm subscribed to go both ways (for those that have footers). For me it really a burning issue more a waste of my Gmail storage as Gmail will automatically hide the footer. Regards Martin -- Martin Ritchie --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected]
