On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 01:20:22AM +0100, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Jörn Engel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Retry after subscribing to the list. I hope this works and I can > > unsubscribe again. > > [...] > > Indeed, messages can only make it to the list if they are from > subscribed authors, but in addition, the first time a given author > posts, he needs a human moderator to look at the post, see that it > isn't spam, and whitelist the author. Now those moderators are few in > number and none of them is at the keyboard 24/7 so your first message > may have to wait several hours if it arrives at a time when no one is > looking. > > Later answers (from any list subscribers) will usually be just to the > list, on the assumption that the author is subscribed and therefore > gets the list posts. That's why you shouldn't unsubscribe: if you do, > not only you won't see answers to your original post, but you will > have to go through the same rigmarole again if ever you want to post > another message to the list. The only times to unsubscribe would IMHO > be just before you decide to get rid of the email account, or just > after you decide never to use Vim again.
Cannot say I enjoy this policy or that it encourages bug reports. But then again, this is the first bug I have encountered in 17 years of using vim, so you must be doing something right. Thank you and everyone else that made my life better in the past 17 years. And I will unsubscribe long before I stop using vim. The latter should be a few weeks before my death, if that long. ;) Jörn -- The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is rinning for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner. -- Aesop -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
