Chaim Frenkel writes: > Make the sub-lists inherit the parent. The time lag between announcement, > realizing the announcment, the subscription, sending back the auth. Or > even recognizing that the subscription didn't take. Could miss some of > the discussion. The mailing lists have easily retrievable archives (I did that to catch up on the early bootstrap messages that I missed). The goal of the different lists is to fragment discussion so that only those who care about the subject are involved. Being automatically subscribed would defeat that. So, no: the default is to have an empty subscription list. NatThread Previous | Thread Next