On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 05:55:51PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
From: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:32:01 -0800
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:18:01 +0000 Russell King rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk wrote:
Find some other mailing list; I'm not hosting *nor* am I willing to run a non-subscribers only mailing list. Period. Not negotiable, so don't even try to change my mind.
Making a list subscribers-only will cause some bug reports to be lost.
Tradeoffs are involved, against which decisions must be made. You have made yours.
Russell doesn't have to worry any more, he doesn't have to host it, and he doesn't have to be willing to run a non-subscribers-only mailing list.
Because I am.
I've created linux-arm@vger.kernel.org
By doing so you've just said (implicitly) that you can not tolerate someone having a different opinion from your own.
While I accept *your* right to run *your* lists how you please, you are unable to accept *my* right to run *my* lists how I see fit.
Time will tell which lists will survive. Whatever, I suspect that by doing what you've just done, you're going to create more confusion and problems. Instead of having one focused place for discussions and bug reports, they're going to be spread more thinly, meaning less people looking at such things, meaning more bugs get ignored. Thus making the issue worse.
So, when are you creating a replacement alsa-devel mailing list on vger? That's also subscribers-only.