Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, David Kastrup wrote:

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

This is a mailing list and not a news group.  I don't care if you use
a newsgroup gateway if it isn't broken.  As it is, gmane is broken as
far as I'm concerned.

A gateway should not be sending to anything but the mailing list
address.  It is not a mail multiplicator.

Then don't use it.

Yet Junio just replied to my mail, apparently using his news reader, and 
I was directly addressed.

quoted

So please complain to gmane or change your setup.

I already explained: the git mailing list is set up in a manner that
will block mail from some accounts of mine without notice or error
report.

And why should _I_ care?  This is _your_ problem for you to investigate.

If there is general consensus on the list that news gateways are not
compatible with the mailing list policies, please report this to gmane,
and gmane will switch the list off-line.

Look, it is you the offender here with your broken setup to interact 
with this mailing list.  So I'm complaining to _you_.  Please cope with 
it.

I have no idea why anybody would think this an improvement, but given
the amount of flak I already got for daring to use gmane, it will
probably improve the atmosphere on the list if people like me are locked
out completely from participation rather than their usage of gmane be
lambasted time and again.

Please figure out an alternative to gmane on your own, or ask those who 
apparently get it to work properly.  I'm sure you're bright enough to 
find a way.


Nicolas