fedora-package-announce at redhat.com message ?

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 5/3/06, Don Russell <fedora at drussell.dnsalias.com> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > I've not just you.  I've not gotten anything either, even though the
> > list archives show a total of 7 messages as recently as yesterday.
> >
> > This entire transition seems to be rather poorly handled.
>
> "poorly handled" =  change methodology at the 11th hour:
>
> Last week an announcement announced announcements would be sent to a new
> list, but not to worry - everybody currently subscribed would be
> auto-subscribed to the new list.... It was advance warning, giving time
> to set up mail filters etc... great! I changed my mail filters and waited.

Indeed, i fell into the same trap.

>
> Today, I learn there's been 7 new messages, none of which I received,
> because I missed the announcement that said "no, we changed our mind...
> auto-subscribing people could be considered spam". (Um, not really....
> not if the CONTENT isn't changing)
>
> But... hey, I'm easy going... no worries... my filters are set up, I'm
> subscribed... all I need now is an announcement to confirm my filters
> are correct. Any day now....

I got a massive backlog of messages from the new list a few hours ago.
 I suspect something on the new list might have been broken.


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