D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Sunday 05 October 2008, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: >> participation is has done nothing to sway me, and, frankly, quite a lot to >> convince me that I'm wasting my time bothering to talk to you at all. > > Although that sense of irritation is mitigated by the realization that I just > got a message that was sent on Thursday, and it's Saturday night. > > SourceForge is having spasms again, and their track record for this kind of > things sucks. That much is definitely an obstacle for everyone.
No kidding. Several days after managing to cram a subscription through, I finally got the reply with my password. Sigh. It still doesn't help that none of the messages that *should* be in the moderation queue have shown up though. From my perspective, that says that legitimate moderated traffic isn't getting through. And I still say it doesn't help that gmane mail seems to have gone to /dev/null (else I should have seen at least the moderation bounce, and I didn't). Perhaps one person's inconvenience isn't worth much overall... but then, if every potential newcomer is subject to enough inconvenience to drive them away (as I nearly was), well, then you don't get any newcomers. Eventually that can kill a project. Of course, so can spam, but maybe that means the list is the real problem (see below). I'm using smtp again to send this; I don't trust gmane for this list. > The demand that posters be subscribed, not so much. Unless you really want > everyone who does subscribe to be inundated with penis enlarging Nigerian > breast enhancement home refinance phishing scams. Maybe try a different list provider? Plenty of KDE lists seem to be non-moderated, and yet aren't innundated with spam. At least a list provider that isn't so unfriendly to subscribing :-/. -- Matthew ENOWIT: .sig file for this machine not set up yet ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
