Re: About luv-announce: When is a mailing list "the same" or "different"?

Les Kitchen via linux-aus <[email protected]> writes:

> Is it because the list is running on different servers?  Is it
> because the list server is under a different domain?  Is it
> because the list server is running different mail software?  Is
> it because the method of subscription is different?  None of
> these seem particularly compelling reasons to regard it as a
> different list.  As far as I'm aware nothing else has really
> changed (aside perhaps from some minor and forgivable glitches
> in set up.)
>

In a response to one of my recent emails, I was told by Russell Coker:

> The original mailing lists are still running.

> The new service is on different addresses and is not a mailing list
> just a bulk email system for sending out announcements.

> The new service is run by different people who have not communicated
> with the members of the original lists.

I haven't tried to verify any of this points myself. If these points are
true, it becomes much harder (IMHO) to try to justify that it is the
same mailing list.
-- 
Brian May @ Linux Penguins
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