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Message-ID: <3ae72650711191733r565f98dbh464b31d4497d23b2@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:33:43 +0100
From:	"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	greg@...ah.com, linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, david-b@...bell.net
Subject: Re: linux-usb-devel@...r created...

On Nov 20, 2007 1:17 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:54:55 -0800
>
> > Woah, the linux-usb-devel@...net list is NOT a subscriber-only list at
> > all.  It's wide open with a bunch of mailman rule filter to try to
> > handle the worst of the spam.
> >
> > It does complain if you try to add too many cc:s to it, but that's it,
> > an admin (me or Stephen) will usually get around to aproving them within
> > 24 hours.
>
> Ok, I stand corrected.
>
> > But, I have no objection to moving to vger if you want to handle the
> > admin load.  If so, should I send you a list of addresses that were on
> > the sf.net list so that people can be migrated?
>
> We don't do migrations like that, so that people:
>
> 1) Learn how to subscribe, and thus how to unsubscribe.
>
> 2) Don't get upset that they were added to a mailing list
>    site they may not want to be one.
>
> So I'd ask that you send an announcement out to the old list,
> and during a transition period you can subscribe the old
> list onto the vger one.
>
> Neil B. did something similar recently for linux-nfs, perhaps
> you can ask him how he handled it.

Sounds all good. If that migration works well, please let us do the
same for hotplug.

Kay
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