[RFC] gnucash-patches mailing list

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:11:10PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:
> 
> >>Or they can CC both lists and wait for the list admin to clear the
> >>moderation queue.
> >
> >Oh, if they're only subscribed to -devel, right?  That's not so good.
> >They're just as likely to assume their mail was dropped rather than
> >entered into a moderation queue.
> 
> They should get an email from mailman telling them their message was
> entered into the moderation queue because they weren't subbed.  So,
> they shouldn't assume their mail was dropped.  Or at least I don't
> know why they would assume that....

Oh, I see.

> >Ok.  Sounds good.  As list-admin, you can tell how many people are
> >subscribed to -patches that are not subscribed to -devel.  I suspect
> >it's very few.  If it's sufficiently few, maybe we can count this
> >thread as accomplishing step 1.
> 
> I'm not sure if there's a good way to compare list membership.  I suppose
> I could do it by pulling out the membership lists into files and then
> comparing the files...  *ponders and easy way to do this*

perhaps something along these lines? : 

$ list_members gnucash-{patches,devel | sort > patches
$ list_members gnucash-devel | sort > devel
$ diff -u devel patches | grep ^+ | wc -l

-chris