On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:38:30PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > I was recently thinking about the misuse of debian-private mailing list, > and I saw that most of the bad-uses of -private were made with the > intention of reaching all developers. > Is this wrong? Yes, and no. The question is that debian-devel has too > much traffic and it's difficult to follow all the threads, so often some > messages are not read by most developers (not by lack of interest, but > just because the message was not seen because of the traffic on -devel). > On the other side, d-d-a is a list which has a very low traffic, and > certainly almost every developer see the posts in d-d-a, but... not > every email that intends to reach all developers is appropriate to d-d-a > since it's not allways an announce. On the contrary, I think a mail intended to reach all developers is the *definition* of an announcement (wrt d-d-a). If you think d-d-a is inappropriate, that sounds to me like a sign that you should more carefully consider who your audience is. In most cases, I imagine that's -devel or -project, and only *rarely* would it be -private. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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