Messages in this thread | | | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: bincancels in linux.kernel | Date | Tue, 3 Dec 2002 04:49:13 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 03 December 2002 02:49, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> I don't personally consider that the fact that a group is gatewayed > from a mailing list to be significant when deciding how to apply Usenet > policies to it.
Andrew, please note that I as a user of linux.kernel do actually consider it significant. LKML (the gated list) is not part of Usenet and the mere fact that at some point it is gated to a newsgroup and transported further via NNTP doesn't make it a part. It's merely a service to people (like me) who find a news interface more convenient and/or have trouble dealing with the large volume of messages via mail.
Furthermore (or "that aside", if you want ... ), although I guess I could conceivably be sympathetic to your cause of ridding Usenet from as much in-appropriate content as possible, linux kernel patches, including binary encoded ones, are not in fact in-appropriate content for linux.kernel, either the list or the newsgroup.
Even on the mailing-list plain text patches are preffered, but when the patch is large gzipping it is actually recommended:
http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s4-1
You for example today cancelled a completely appropriate post from Art Haas (http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0212.0/0302.html) and I will admit that actually annoys me quite a bit.
> Erik> The gated list is linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Cc), a list to > Erik> which sometimes binary patches are posted. IMHO binaries are > Erik> acceptable in linux.kernel. > > well, I would have to disagree (even if you don't think that binaries > coming via the mailing list would be a problem, there is still the > question of binaries posted via news
Fortunately, linux-kernel (the list) has active filtering itself, so anything in-appropriate comming in through news will be filtered out in the same way as the ones comming in through mail. Of course that doesn't help us NNTP readers, but I guess we'll just have to deal with that. LKML is not strictly non-binary-only, so cancelling simply on the criterium of binary attachments is very inappropriate.
Might I therefore respectfully suggest you keep the bin-cancelling suspended?
Rene.
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