From: Jaroslav Kysela perex@perex.cz Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:56:38 +0100 (CET)
David, could I send you the list of subscribers on the alsa-devel list (in a private e-mail) to move mailing list to vger without bothering all users to resubscribe again (we did it several months ago, so the subscriber list is quite clean)? I will redirect alsa-devel@alsa-project.org address then to alsa-devel@vger.kernel.org (if it does not break any vger rules or spam filtering on vger) to preserve alsa-devel list e-mail.
We don't do this because:
1) If the user doesn't do the subscribe, they won't know how to unsubscribe.
If you think this isn't an issue, after 10 years of co-running vger I can tell you it's a huge issue as they just spam the list owner, with requests to be removed.
2) Users generally get upset when you subscribe them to a site they did not get asked to be subscribed to. And yes this is true even if it's the same mailing list just at a new location.
I apply this rule unilaterally to all new mailing lists hosted at vger, I'm not just singling out this case, believe me :-)
So please ask the folks on the existing list to subscribe to the new one.
Thank you.