Re: Can we please have the old mailing list back

[Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>]

On 4/2/20 6:00 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> [gcc mailing list removed]
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 12:01:59PM +0200, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
>> On 4/2/20 11:48 AM, Richard Sandiford wrote:
>>> Sorry for the confusion :-)
>>
>> No problem, I know who you are.
> 
> So do I.  Hi Richard!
> 
>> But if I write a mail I spend a lot of time for it, and if it bounces,
>> that work is lost.  This makes a bad start, and the first impression
>> usually decides a lot in our lives.
> 
> Thunderbird, and most other email clients, have a "Sent" folder so this
> is just ridiculous.
> 
> I'm not going to respond to most of the other points.  Having a public
> discussion about someone's inconvenience with my email address is silly.
> 

how about also apologizing for the silly-word here?


> I will reiterate the that if there are issues with marc.info, or any
> other non-sourceware.org mailing list archiver they need to be addressed
> with the non-sourceware.org entity.
> 
> If there are issues with email received from sourceware.org/gcc.gnu.org
> like attachments looking funny, then, of course, we will want to hear
> about them.  We care if email doesn't show up in our subscribers inbox
> or if the sourceware.org/gcc.gnu.org archives are incorrect.
> 
> We don't care if attachments look wrong on sites over which we have no
> control.  We don't care if email isn't showing up on other archiving
> sites.  We would certainly listen to concerns from the owners of other
> sites but there are no guarantees that we would change anything to make
> their lives easier.  That's not how this works.
> 
> Your valid point about http vs. https has been corrected.  Future
> attachments will show https.  We'll schedule a mailing list archive
> rebuild at some point to fix the rest. Thanks for  bringing that issue
> to our attention.
>