[License-review] Concerning: For Approval: Scripting Free Software License, Version 1.3.5 (S-FSL v1.3.5)

[Chuck Swiger]

Hi, Elmar--

On Nov 7, 2013, at 8:03 AM, Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Moderator of the OSI license review list,

I'm not this list's moderator, but I was one of the stronger proponents of switching OSI license-discuss to GNU Mailman, so I can provide a bit of understanding of how the list software works.

>  After having sent you the original messages in the forenoon I have re-sent you exactly the same messages in the afternoon preceded by the following line:
> 
> "resending since the original message did not seem to reach you:"
> 
> Then they got suddenly posted all together within a few minutes.

Yes, it's not uncommon for a moderator to process and approve a bunch of messages at one time which then get delivered within a few minutes.

> Could you please delete the duplicate messages from the list so that people are not unnecessarily hindered from reading the discussion?

Mailman understands and has options that will try to filter out duplicate messages, but that only works if you actually resent the originals unchanged.  By making a change, your emails very likely got a different Message-Id: header and thus were considered "different".

> Also it would be nice if you could sort the last two messages in correctly.
> The messages sent today are as a whole replies to singleton preceding messages starting with the line
> 
> In Reply To: FirstName Name

Someone could manually update the OSI list archives, but this list gets archived elsewhere (eg www.mail-archive.com and such), so it's effectively not useful to try to make such a change.

> They likely did not get sorted in correctly because they are manual replies. The subscription to the mailing list did not work in the first place though I had a confirm mail and believed to have opened the link to confirm correctly.

Go to the URL quoted at the bottom of each message:

> _______________________________________________
> License-review mailing list
> License-review at opensource.org
> http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-review

That will let you login to confirm your list subscription, adjust options and such.
(Or send a password reminder to your email account if you can't login.)

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck