Re: status of debian-consultants mailing list

[Rich Bodo <rsb@ostel.com>]

Hopefully, I can squeeze this in just prior to list deletion.  

For everyone who is interested in a general linux consultants list,
one exists.  We started a linux consultants luncheon group in my neck
of the woods, and, of course, a mailing list, which has since grown to
include international membership.  

You can join at: 

linux-consultants mailing list
linux-consultants@softorchestra.com
http://www.softorchestra.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-consultants

We don't really have a home on the web, but more than one subgroup of
people on the list meets for good food and good conversation near
their physical homes once a month.

-Rich

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Josip Rodin wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:51:31PM +0100, Richard Watson wrote:
> > In any case, I think we've all made the effort now. So the big
> > question is....
> > 
> > Have we saved the list?
> 
> You're making it sound like it's about something that wishes to be saved
> -- heck, about something that has the capacity of wishing to be saved! :)
> 
> What some people seem to have missed is that I'm not saying that there's no
> reason at all to have this list ever. I am saying that right now, no such
> reason is making itself obvious and the list is practically useless.
> 
> Someone said that the cost of keeping is negligible -- sure, but each time
> our filters don't catch a spam, it gets disseminated to over 400 people.
> There's justification for a lax anti-spam system with high S/N ratio lists,
> but here I can't seem to see it.
> 
> Note also that a list (including its current subscriber list) can be saved
> for future reuse.
> 
> In conclusion, I'm afraid the inevitable deletion is only being postponed.
> (And this very post is helping that, even. Damn. :)
> 
> 

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