Unsollicited maillist subscription

I would tend to agree with you that the proper way of going about things would've been a one-time email to the old list subscribers pointing them to where they could subscribe to the new list(s).

Whether or not the intent was pure, automatically subscribing people to a new list was, IMO, wrong both from the standpoint of netiquette, as well as from the standpoint of the rules of the Yahoo groups.

I know Scott from other venues, and I'm sure he meant well, but I do think the transition from old lists to new should have been handled differently.

from G. Andrew Duthie