From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2672 invoked by alias); 18 Nov 2005 21:02:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 2650 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Nov 2005 21:02:42 -0000 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com (HELO e32.co.us.ibm.com) (32.97.110.150) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:02:42 +0000 Received: from westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.11]) by e32.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jAIL2fFt018221 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:02:41 -0500 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by westrelay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.8) with ESMTP id jAIL2PT9086872 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:02:25 -0700 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jAIL2e2Q009861 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:02:41 -0700 Received: from dyn9047022123-009047022095.beaverton.ibm.com (dyn9047022123-009047022095.beaverton.ibm.com [9.47.22.95]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jAIL2d4t009850; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:02:39 -0700 From: Paul Gilliam Reply-To: pgilliam@us.ibm.com To: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: Maintainer policy for GDB Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:02:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, brobecker@adacore.com, cagney@gnu.org, jtc@acorntoolworks.com, fnf@ninemoons.com, Peter.Schauer@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de, ezannoni@redhat.com References: <20051117044801.GA4705@nevyn.them.org> <200511180956.14917.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511181305.48126.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-11/txt/msg00402.txt.bz2 On Friday 18 November 2005 10:31, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Paul Gilliam > > Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:56:14 -0800 > > Cc: Joel Brobecker , cagney@gnu.org, > > jtc@acorntoolworks.com, fnf@ninemoons.com, > > Peter.Schauer@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de, ezannoni@redhat.com > > > > On Friday 18 November 2005 04:39, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:10:20 -0800 > > > > From: Joel Brobecker > > > > > > > > About the voting system: I would also prefer to avoid this. The history > > > > of the GDB maintenance community since I joined shows that we're able > > > > to work together without unsolvable disagreements. > > > > > > How far into the past does your history go? I've seen unsolvable > > > disagreements less than a year ago. > > > > Do you have a URL into the mailing list archive? > > I started to look for it, but then I read your other comments and > realized that you were mocking me. So I won't bother looking for the Please forgive me if I gave the impression I was mocking you! That was far from my intention! I just wanted to be able to take a look at the situation to which you where refering. > relevant messages. Some of them were in private mail, so there's no > URLs anyway. > > But reality doesn't change if there's no URL to show as evidence. If > you don't believe me that these things happened, ask others here, they > will tell you. I was not calling your veracity into question, I just don't remember. Sometimes I get so focused on the current thing, I tend to tune-out what doesn't directly apply to it. > > > Is there a technological solution to this problem? Something that could > > tell if a person were NOT subscribed to the list and send the mail directly? > > I don't know of any technological solution, except to configure the > list server to filter addresses in order to prevent multiple messages. > Most mailing lists don't do that, and FWIW I'm used to have double > messages, they don't annoy me. Me too. It took awhile to get used to, though. > That's why I cannot understand why > people bother to use Mail-Followup-To. IMHO it causes more trouble > than it's worth. > > PS: You have contributed so much to GDB that only a jerk would be less than polite to you.