Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add "L: linux-arm@vger.kernel.org" to ARMsections

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 04:08:34AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 11:35 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > And... have your emails been held for moderation recently?
> 
> Umm... (while chuckling)

Yes.  The reason being is you removed the 'Re:' from the subject
line but still pressed "reply".

We have an etiquette item which discourages that - we have people
who like to use the "reply" button to start a completely new and
unrelated topic of conversation.  So the mailing list catches this
behaviour and holds it for moderation, so we don't end up with
irrelevent sub-threads tagged on to existing threads in the archives
(or even in our threaded mail readers.)

So, the list _correctly_ holds such attempts so that someone can
see whether this really is the case, and ask the person to re-post
without burying their message in the middle of an existing thread,
or if it is relevant, approve it.  You can't deduce this using rules
alone.  It *requires* human intervention.

So chuckle all you want.  This is one of the things we _do_ get right
to improve the overall quality for existing subscribers, and make the
archives more searchable.
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