Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Add "L: linux-arm@vger.kernel.org" to ARMsections

[Daniel Mack]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:54:44PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 04:08:34AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 11:35 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > And... have your emails been held for moderation recently?
> > 
> > Umm... (while chuckling)
> 
> Yes.  The reason being is you removed the 'Re:' from the subject
> line but still pressed "reply".
> 
> We have an etiquette item which discourages that - we have people
> who like to use the "reply" button to start a completely new and
> unrelated topic of conversation.  So the mailing list catches this
> behaviour and holds it for moderation, so we don't end up with
> irrelevent sub-threads tagged on to existing threads in the archives
> (or even in our threaded mail readers.)

One common false positive to this rule is using 'git send-email' with a
message ID as reference. There won't be a 'Re:' in that case.

As just happened to my USB patches some hours ago.

Daniel

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