[ds6-devel] Re: Welcome to the "Spak6-commit" mailing list

[Chris Leishman]

On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 01:39 AM, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
<snip>
> excuse me, chris. i have asked simone to subscribe you to these lists
> because you're one of our core developers. i guessed the topics were
> interesting for you.
>
> excuse me again. i didn't want to bother you :-P

Your not really bothering me, but the point is that administrators 
should never sign people up to mailing lists.  That job (and choice) 
should be left to the user.  Of course, that might be as simple as you 
asking "would you like me to put you on this list" and me replying "yes 
do that".  But in this case, the methods for signing up for these lists 
are trivial and it's probably pretty obvious that I have the technical 
knowledge to do this for myself.

I'm basically saying that you should give people the info about the 
list they are on, and then point them to the web page where they can 
sign up (or tell them to send "subscribe" to the appropriate -request 
address).

If you think I should be on those lists, tell me what they are and I'll 
probably decide that I should join them.

Regards,
Chris