Open Letter: Why I, Kevin Kofler, am not rerunning for FESCo

[Michael J Gruber]

Patrick O'Callaghan venit, vidit, dixit 04.05.2010 02:07:
> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 15:21 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
>>> BTW, one of the reasons to avoid cross-posting is that it makes it
>> very
>>> hard to keep the threads straight. Some people reply on one list,
>> some
>>> on another. For those of us who aren't on both, this quickly becomes
>>> unmanageable.
>>
>> If it's pertinent to both lists, it should go to both lists. If your
>> mail client cant' properly thread them that's something you should
>> fix. It works just fine with kmail over here. But labelling it as
>> somemone else's mistake is kinda un-called-for, imo.
> 
> 1) I didn't invent the widely-applied netiquette rule about
> cross-posting. In fact it's also part of the Guidelines document that
> applies to all the Fedora lists, see
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#Do_not_Cross_Post
> 
> 2) I understand that most rules have exceptions, and it's up to the
> poster to decide what to do. (For example, Kevin didn't post his message
> to the main Fedora users list, just to dev and kde, even though it would
> seem pretty much equally relevant to all three.)
> 
> 3) If your mail client handles this situation, can I assume you are not
> filtering the various lists into separate folders, as many people do? If
> not, can you explain how you set up your MUA to handle this?
> 
> 4) The cross-posting issue wasn't even the central point of my message,
> whuch was that Kevin said he'd cross-posted when in fact as far as I can
> see he hadn't. Perhaps the mail server had a hiccup, perhaps his MUA
> failed in some way, perhaps he mis-remembered what he'd done, but that's
> what caused the confusion in the first place. Even with all the MUA
> support imaginable, nothing can be done if the messages aren't being
> received. Why do you think it uncalled-for to label that a mistake?

Gmane shows it both in kde and devel. So, if there's a mistake, it's not
on Kevin's sending side.

Replying to it (through gmane) I got a denied from devel but not from
kde, I guess it requires subscription.

Michael