how to use a mailing-list

T.C. Hollingsworth tchollingsworth at gmail.com
Sat Apr 7 17:09:27 UTC 2012


On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> On 04/08/2012 12:41 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Sam Sharpe <lists.redhat at samsharpe.net> wrote:
>>> The fix for this is to disable the old list address and bounce it with
>>> a message indicating the correct new list address, instead of
>>> forwarding it on to the real list address. It's been a while since the
>>> list hosting was moved, perhaps now it's worth severing the ties.
>> I just requested this:
>> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3230
>>
>
> I see you rated the Severity as "Trivial".  While this is probably the "correct"
> level you could have mentioned in the ticket that this issue does, from time to time,
> result in a kerfuffle on the list giving rise to certain people (who will remain
> nameless) calling for the demise of mailing lists in favor of web-based help forums only.

Read the last sentence of the "phenomenon" section.  :-)

-T.C.


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