Re: closing mailing lists
Stephen <stephen.d.allen@gmail.com>:
>
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 05:35:07PM -0500 or thereabouts, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 11:51:08 -0400, Stephen <stephen.d.allen@gmail.com> said:
> >
> > > It should be, pretty much everything else in the Debian Project
> > > calls for votes in order for a consensus.
> >
> > Wrong. Most of the decisions made in the project are
> > technical -- and we never vote on technical issues (deciding
> > technical issues by popularity is like voting on the value if Pi)
>
> This, in my opinion isn't a technical issue. It appears almost to be
> political, with a tad of religious tones. Which is why (again in my
It's policy.
> opinion) it's worthy of seeking a consensus <ie> vote. Let's see what
> the majority of users, that actually use the list think.
Go ahead. Post a call for votes to be mailed to you. It's a non-
binding informational poll. Tally results, report back.
Here's mine: Debian-User's current poicy is correct. I've no wish to
change it.
> > > I see no reason why this list should be the exception -- After all
> > > it is called debian-user, emphasis on "user". :)
> >
> > I kinda doubt that list-masters look to polls on how to do
>
> Well, the reason we're discussing this, kinda makes the argument that
> perhaps they should be listening to what the needs of the people using
> the list, care and think about; In terms of how the list perhaps could
The reason we're discussing this is some subscribers have trouble
accepting the level of spam coming from Debian mailing lists to which
they've subscribed. I think it's a trivial issue but others may not
have managed to come up with solutions I've discovered to mitigate the
problem. The problem of spam on debian lists is trivial for me.
> I really don't see it as a "big deal". Whatever is decided, I'll still
> be here; Reading, learning, and using the best distro in LinuxLand,
So, don't fix what's not borken [sic]. :-)
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