On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Aditya wrote: > gmane or the person who suggested list-managers to gmane should make sure > permission is granted before subscription and it was an oversight not to.
I only "suggested" it here, merely by posting the query that started this thread. I most certainly did not sign it up without the list manager's permission. It might be useful for gmane to have a mechanism (maybe it does) for a list manager to pre-emptively say not to honor requests to add the list. (I'm not advocating opt-out, but just a mechanism that can help reduce errors.) > Any and all lists that do not wish to be archived by gmane should not be > archived. If that decision for list-managers is not taken by a vote of list > members then ignore my +1 for archiving list-managers on gmane. Me, too. If the list manager is polling subscribers on this question, I would like to see it added to gmane. But the list manager is under no obligation to poll subscribers. I do understand and sympathize with the points about "control", although I don't find that a big issue for this list. But I'm happy to leave things to the list managers discretion. > > If all you want to do is read list-managers using a newsreader, why not > > set up a private server on a spare linux box and use any of the various > > mail-to-news kludges to pump the mail into it? > > been there, done that since 1995, and honestly it's something I'd rather have > someone else do, like gmane. Also there may be subscribers who don't have the skills or resources to do that. Gmane provides a useful service, at the cost of giving up some control. It's up to the list owner to make the choice (and he appearently has). -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ Relativism is the triumph of authority over truth, convention over justice
