Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261602AbVADNGh (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:06:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261605AbVADNFc (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:05:32 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.199]:6468 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261602AbVADNFV (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:05:21 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=G2m4oChR4GpfpgVqnGn88B+ZTcHr6tBqytt+Egy9HH7MGUng5FgnnRMjgs+k5dy+zTVYxbImuJD/3jAGdSpLmEV5tLxVZ8D2Rbn3R9obaeyeP6fw2OVjWGMStr88d9ALE8Bq9rxrYGkZ8x7sCP6+JC0gYBWTcEmy3VL4l7xzRX8= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:05:20 +0900 From: Miles Bader Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org To: Erik Mouw Subject: Re: [patch] maintainers: remove moderated arm list Cc: Miles Bader , Adrian Bunk , Domen Puncer , lkml , Russell King In-Reply-To: <20050104101843.GB26584@harddisk-recovery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20041225170825.GA31577@nd47.coderock.org> <20041225172155.A26504@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050103175438.GL2980@stusta.de> <20050104101843.GB26584@harddisk-recovery.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1246 Lines: 26 > > 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. I've had this problem with many mailing lists not based in the UK, so presumably that particular stupidity doesn't apply to them. However sad the case of the arm lists, I'd like to know if there are more basic problems involved that could explain my experience. It sounds like it would be an excellent idea not to host lists in the UK though... -Miles - 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/