Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 11:45:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Morgan Davis <root@io.cts.com> To: john@ulantris.infinop.com (John A. Booth) Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail overload. Message-ID: <199606101845.LAA01201@io.cts.com> In-Reply-To: <199606101458.JAA20671@ulantris.infinop.com> from "John A. Booth" at "Jun 10, 96 09:58:51 am"
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John A. Booth writes: > > What are the thoughts on breaking this stuff out of mail lists and into > > news groups? (At least there I can use kill files to eliminate the noise.) > There are news groups or is a newsgroup. My personal feeling is > news takes too long to propagate. I get much better response to the mailing > lists--I'm more apt to read a mailing list than a news group. If I don't > think the subject applies I delete the messages w/o reading it. I agree that there is way too much chatter here. I used to follow the other FreeBSD major mailing lists (-current, -question, and -hackers) but for the same reasons, the avalanche of e-mail made it impossible to hunt down those important announcements about tree changes, sup servers, etc. With the recent tree hosing on May 31, I was urged to join this -stable mailing list so that I can stay informed of issues that most affect maintaining a -stable system. I hoped to do this without having to dig through another 40 messages everyday to find the gems. Discussions about whether -stable should stay or go, or -current should become what we think of as -stable, etc., or how commercial users ought to donate money to FreeBSD, Inc., etc., are certainly important. But I think they should have their own place, like a freebsd-planning (or -policy, or -harangue, or -etc) list. --Morgan
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