Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:20:37 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       david-b@pacbell.net
Subject: Re: linux-usb-devel@vger created...
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 04:17:55PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:54:55 -0800
> 
> > Woah, the linux-usb-devel@sf.net list is NOT a subscriber-only list at
> > all.  It's wide open with a bunch of mailman rule filter to try to
> > handle the worst of the spam.
> > 
> > It does complain if you try to add too many cc:s to it, but that's it,
> > an admin (me or Stephen) will usually get around to aproving them within
> > 24 hours.
> 
> Ok, I stand corrected.
> 
> > But, I have no objection to moving to vger if you want to handle the
> > admin load.  If so, should I send you a list of addresses that were on
> > the sf.net list so that people can be migrated?
> 
> We don't do migrations like that, so that people:
> 
> 1) Learn how to subscribe, and thus how to unsubscribe.
> 
> 2) Don't get upset that they were added to a mailing list
>    site they may not want to be one.
> 
> So I'd ask that you send an announcement out to the old list,
> and during a transition period you can subscribe the old
> list onto the vger one.

Ok, I'll do that, it will be nice to move away from the sf.net lists,
thanks for offering this for us.

greg k-h
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