Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261604AbVADKSq (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 05:18:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261611AbVADKSq (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 05:18:46 -0500 Received: from users.linvision.com ([62.58.92.114]:23687 "HELO bitwizard.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261604AbVADKSo (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 05:18:44 -0500 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:18:43 +0100 From: Erik Mouw To: Miles Bader Cc: Adrian Bunk , Domen Puncer , lkml , Russell King Subject: Re: [patch] maintainers: remove moderated arm list Message-ID: <20050104101843.GB26584@harddisk-recovery.com> References: <20041225170825.GA31577@nd47.coderock.org> <20041225172155.A26504@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050103175438.GL2980@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organization: Harddisk-recovery.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1838 Lines: 41 On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 06:37:01PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Sounds great, but _every single time_ I've ever gotten one of those > "your message is awaiting moderation" messages from such a list, it's > inevitably followed a few hours/days later by a "your message has been > rejected" message. In every case, the message I sent was definitely a > no-brainer to allow, so I can only guess that either the moderation > system is broken, or the moderators are. It's not about sanity, it's about abiding the law (the UK Data Protection Act, in this particular case). As Russell King explained in this thread, there are such things as real life and politicians that make privacy laws. On the linux-arm* lists, we make no difference in intention: if you're not subscribed, it means you didn't agree to your messages being publicly archived (i.e.: you didn't agree to your privacy being violated), and to avoid legal hassles later on, we can't accept your post. The legal hassles I'm talking about are not a theoretical thing, there have been successful requests from posters to have their messages removed from other mailing lists archives in the past. Yes, I know that's stupid, and yes, I know a mailing list maintainer can't do anything against other people archiving his list, but the law says otherwise. Note however, that messages with patches sent to the linux-arm-kernel list will get to the right person (i.e.: Russell). Erik linux-arm*-owner #2 -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/