Since this email a month ago, we got more and more heavily cross-posted emails (to 4 mailing-lists in general...). This is very hard to handle and threads are getting lost and forked. Replies were asked to be sent to dev-webapps but now we have one of those threads happening only in dev-webapi and another happening in all original mailing-lists except dev-webapps... I don't think anything else is needed to explain why cross-posting is a bad idea...
It would be awesome if this could be prevented for next threads. For example, just saying to dev-b2g, dev-webapi and dev-security that discussions about WebAPI and security will happen in dev-webapps and people need to subscribe here if they want to follow them would have been good enough. Thanks, -- Mounir On 03/22/2012 03:25 PM, Mounir Lamouri wrote: > Hi, > > Cross-posting in newsgroups/mailing-lists should be avoided as much as > possible. It's indeed convenient to send a message to dev-security and > dev-b2g when we speak about the security model for OWA but now the > thread has been forked in three places (dev-b2g, dev-security and > dev-webapps) and it's been harder to follow what's being said (actually, > I gave up). It is also happening quite a lot that people send messages > to dev-b2g and dev-webapi because webapi work is very close to the b2g > project. > > AFAIK, the rule of thumb for that is to pick one mailing-list and send > the message to that one. For example, you want to speak about an API, > it's better to send the message to the dev-webapi mailing-list. B2G > people interested in API's will likely follow that list. > If you *really* think some other people might be interested in your > message, there are various alternatives. You can send an email to other > mailing-lists saying that you've just started a thread about X in Y > mailing-list. Otherwise, you can CC other-mailing-lists and ask people > to reply to mailing-list A. In that case, you should set REPLY-TO and > FOLLOWUP-TO fields in your message (and hope people will respect those). > > Anyhow, discussions happening in more than one place at the same time > should be an exception. This message being one... > > Thanks, > -- > Mounir > _______________________________________________ > dev-webapi mailing list > dev-web...@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapi _______________________________________________ dev-security mailing list dev-security@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security
