Re: proposal: drop bugzilla@jessica.w3.org emails from public-html human lists from Steve Axthelm on 2010-11-23 (public-html@w3.org from November 2010)

From: Steve Axthelm <steveax@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:22:26 -0800
To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
cc: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>, public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <r417ps-1064i-766A7931F89249B2A11AA7031952ABFA@trebor.local>

On 2010-11-15 Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com> wrote:

>After seeing how it has played out in practice, I think new bug
>notification is the right default. An opt-out system seems to be more
>effective for this group than opt-in, and we get higher-quality
>discussion and work product, with less noise.

I agree. Spam aside, I think the current scheme strikes the 
correct balance. I don't really see the need to create an 
opt-out mechanism -- the X-Bugzilla mail headers are easy enough 
to filter on should one not want to see the bugzilla messages.

Regards,

-Steve

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Steve Axthelm
steveax@pobox.com

Received on Tuesday, 23 November 2010 02:23:03 UTC