X.Org mailing lists on x.org website are very nonconventional and irritating

[Eric Anholt]

On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 15:17, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> I just attempted to subscribe to the xorg_arch at x.org mailing list, which
> I was previously subscribed to this year, and while going through the
> procedure on the website I found it incredibly non-helpful.

... (lots of ranting about the insanity of the current x.org mailing
list setup)

> Please take an hour to install GNU mailman and convert these lists
> over to it, or please move them to freedesktop.org where the
> infrastructure already exists.

I know I've been complained to by FreeBSD people about the terrible
x.org mailing list system, and I've complained about it myself.  It
would be very nice to see this fixed.

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Eric Anholt                                eta at lclark.edu          
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt at FreeBSD.org