What is with all these unsubscribe messages

[Jeff Brower]

David-

> From: Ben Warren <biggerbadderben at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:27:06 -0800
>
>> I expect they're all people, like myself, that have been bumped here
>> from the ppc_embedded list and aren't used to all the traffic.
>
> This is why, as a policy, we never allow propagation of subscribers
> from old lists to new ones created at vger.kernel.org
>
> Everyone must go through the motions of adding themselves to the new
> list.
>
> If you allow the propagation, it's essentially an act of putting
> someone onto a mailing list without having their permission to do so.
>
> And the result is what we've seen here for the past few days.  If
> those people on the embedded list were truly interested in the
> linuxppc-dev list content, they would have added themselves.

I completely disagree.  I'm glad the embedded PC list owners were thoughtful enough to migrate me to the new list. 
They are experts, they know what they're doing, and I trust their judgment.

My only complaint is that the new subject lines don't have the widely used "[group-name]" prefix.  I might guess that
some people rely on that to organize e-mail searches for specific group content.

-Jeff