java/phpeclipse

[Tobias Roth]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 01:21:17PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > I have submitted the following PR a couple of days ago.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=94325
> 
> > No commiter has stepped forward to take care of the matter.
> 
> A couple of days is not too long...
> 
> > Thus I'm now sending the patches to the mailing list in hope that somebody
> > might step up to commit them.
> 
> NEVER do this again. Sending a *link* to the PR, which includes your patches, 
> is perfectly sufficient. There is NO NEED WHATSOEVER to spam hundreds of 
> mailboxes with your patches -- at the most 3 or 5 people would have any 
> interest in them.
> 
> This stupid sending of copies (values) instead of references is a menace of 
> modern software :-( ...

So your suggestion is that mailing lists should only send out links to
archived copies instead of sending the actual messages?

greets, Tobias