Bug 1111

Summary:	X.Org mailing list subscription system is lame
Product:	freedesktop.org	Reporter:	Eric Anholt <eric>
Component:	Mailing lists	Assignee:	fd.o Admin Massive <sitewranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	leon, mharris, roland.mainz
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Eric Anholt 2004-08-17 18:27:44 UTC

http://www.x.org/XOrg_Foundation_Join_List.tpl

Looks like all of the xorg* lists at
http://www.x.org/XOrg_Foundation_Join_OpenLists.html are this way.

There's no need for people to associate usernames (which you use for *what*
exactly?) with email addresses.  And Companies.  This was noticed by someone who
uses a 1-email-per-mailinglist system and got really tired of typing his name. 
Couldn't we just use a mailman system?

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2004-08-25 16:09:50 UTC

I agree.  It would probably just be easiest to move the rest of the X.org
mailing lists directly to the freedesktop.org server.  The lists could
still have the x.org hostnames I believe.  For mailing lists, anything that
isn't pronounced "GNU mailman" is frustrating to use as a user, frustrating
to admin as an admin, and just plain confusing nowadays.

Comment 2 Daniel Stone 2004-09-27 05:24:12 UTC

... nothing we can do about it, really.  I agree it's total arse, and we should
probably swallow the rest of the lists, but take it up with X.Org.

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