Edward Reid <edward@paleo.org> writes:
> Personally, I think the way Kent did it was totally appropriate.
> After all, anyone posting to news.answers has already received email
> about the maintainers list, probably several times -- including a
> strong recommendation that they subscribe to the "announce" list.
>
> If you don't want extra email, don't post an FAQ. Duh.
That was somewhat my take as well. I haven't maintained the
rec.roller-coaster FAQ in several years, and no one has taken it
over. I still get the occasional message asking a question about
roller coasters. My name's on the FAQ. I expect that.
So, when I got the message about the list, I figured,
hmm... interesting. I don't maintain a FAQ, but it might be
interesting to see what the current state of FAQ maintenance is. Maybe
I'll read for a while then unsubscribe.
This is quite different from spam. I mean, this is related to an
activity I voluntarily participated in, and I know how to unsubscribe
from a mailing list if I see fit. (And I have confidence that, unlike
sending "remove" in response to a spam message, an unsubscribe request
to majordomo would actually accomplish someting. :^) ) Maybe
populating the list this was way wasn't the best way to do it, but
it's not the end of the world, either.
Geoff
-- Geoff Allen, geoff@wsu.edu, <http://www.wsu.edu/~geoff/>Willie Mays seems to be swinging bad. -- Pitcher Warren Spahn just before a game in 1961 in which Mays hit 4 home runs.
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