From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755901AbZHWIUs (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:20:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755865AbZHWIUr (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:20:47 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f207.google.com ([209.85.219.207]:52278 "EHLO mail-ew0-f207.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755563AbZHWIUq (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:20:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4A90FBFA.3010504@mellanox.co.il> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:21:14 +0300 From: Tziporet Koren Reply-To: tziporet@dev.mellanox.co.il Organization: Mellanox Technologies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Dreier CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Opinions on moving Linux InfiniBand/RDMA mailing list to vger? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Roland Dreier wrote: > Lately, I've had a few emails that I thought would have been of interest > to both lkml and also to general@lists.openfabrics.org. I've held back > on cross-posting them because I know that general@ is subscribers-only, > and the bounce messages are quite annoying to replies coming from lkml. > > The general@ list is subscribers-only because the openfabrics.org > sysadmin team is already overworked without trying to keep an open list > spam free. (I say that with no intention to criticize the > openfabrics.org admins -- they do a terrific job of keeping things > running with the limited resources available; it's more a testament to > how impressive the vger mailing list admins are) > > I've also noticed one or two messages about the possibility of moving > another moderated list to vger. Certainly I prefer open lists that > don't require subscriptions to post. > > So with that background, what would people think about creating an open > vger list (say, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org) to carry the discussion > currently on general@lists.openfabrics.org? (The transition plan would > probably be to keep the general@ list for a month or two, with frequent > announcements of the new list, until archives etc. have caught up with > the switch) > > > Very good initiative Tziporet