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

[Ely Levy]

seems that everyone agree about it?
what is missing then?
why not set up new mailing list on fd.o and worry about archives later on?


Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel



On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Eric Anholt wrote:

> 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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