Re: [OT] Mail list issue.
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 05:41:18PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> shirish शिरीष:
> >
> > Now I know that debian-user@lists.debian.org is a high-volume list and
> > can easily overwhelm a guy like me. Hence I was looking for a way to
> > subscribe to the list, send mails and still not receive mails other
> > than if guys explicitly address me either in To: , or in CC: . I have
> > seen this functionality in most of mailing lists which are run by
> > Mailman where I can do like that.
>
> As fas as I know, Debian lists don't use mailman. But either way:
> everybody can send mail to the lists, you don't have to be a subscriber.
> It's just a good idea to subscribe to the no-traffic-list "whitelist" in
> order to make it past the spam filters:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/whitelist/
>
> > I did the next thing I could think of - filed the bug/issue
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606466
>
> You placed the request at exactly the right place, it's just that I
> think you can achieve what you want without actually subscribing to any
> list at all.
I've always thought it good etiquette to ask on the list
*before* filing a bug report.
> J.
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