: The list would be unreadable if everyone spammed at the bottom their : email like Otis'. It's just bad form.
If you'd like to debate project policy on what is/isn't acceptible on any of the Lucene mailing lists, please start a new thread on general@lucene (the list that exists precisely for the purpose of discussing meta-issues related to the Project/Community) instead of spamming the substantial solr-user@lucene subscriber base who probably subscribed to this list because they were interested in getting emails about using solr, not debating email etiquite. -Hoss