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?
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.
... 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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