[ofa-general] Opinions on moving Linux InfiniBand/RDMA mailing list to vger?

[Tziporet Koren]

Roland Dreier wrote:
> Lately, I've had a few emails that I thought would have been of interest
> to both lkml and also to general at lists.openfabrics.org.  I've held back
> on cross-posting them because I know that general@ is subscribers-only,
> and the bounce messages are quite annoying to replies coming from lkml.
>
> The general@ list is subscribers-only because the openfabrics.org
> sysadmin team is already overworked without trying to keep an open list
> spam free.  (I say that with no intention to criticize the
> openfabrics.org admins -- they do a terrific job of keeping things
> running with the limited resources available; it's more a testament to
> how impressive the vger mailing list admins are)
>
> I've also noticed one or two messages about the possibility of moving
> another moderated list to vger.  Certainly I prefer open lists that
> don't require subscriptions to post.
>
> So with that background, what would people think about creating an open
> vger list (say, linux-rdma at vger.kernel.org) to carry the discussion
> currently on general at lists.openfabrics.org?  (The transition plan would
> probably be to keep the general@ list for a month or two, with frequent
> announcements of the new list, until archives etc. have caught up with
> the switch)
>
>
>   
Very good initiative
Tziporet