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Message-ID: <20090813115444.GB10450@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:54:44 +0100
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk,
David John <davidjon@...ontk.org>,
Erik Mouw <mouw@...linux.org>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add "L: linux-arm@...r.kernel.org" to ARM
sections
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 04:08:34AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 11:35 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > And... have your emails been held for moderation recently?
>
> Umm... (while chuckling)
Yes. The reason being is you removed the 'Re:' from the subject
line but still pressed "reply".
We have an etiquette item which discourages that - we have people
who like to use the "reply" button to start a completely new and
unrelated topic of conversation. So the mailing list catches this
behaviour and holds it for moderation, so we don't end up with
irrelevent sub-threads tagged on to existing threads in the archives
(or even in our threaded mail readers.)
So, the list _correctly_ holds such attempts so that someone can
see whether this really is the case, and ask the person to re-post
without burying their message in the middle of an existing thread,
or if it is relevant, approve it. You can't deduce this using rules
alone. It *requires* human intervention.
So chuckle all you want. This is one of the things we _do_ get right
to improve the overall quality for existing subscribers, and make the
archives more searchable.
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