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Re: We can halve volume by not allowing nondevelopers to post



On Fri, Mar 19, 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 1999 at 03:45:18PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 
> <agree with this stuff>

Ian's analysis relies on the "uselessness" of non-develepors' posts. Closing
-devel to non-developers means ignoring interesting feedback.

We would then have the choice between letting people post to -user which is
not really appropriate or creating a new list, and we'll get back to the
same problem.

I don't think that ignoring non-developers is a solution.

> > This, together with the unstable/frozen lists, might put -devel back
> > where nearly everyone could read it.
> 
> The only thing I know of the makes this difficult is the manual
> subscribing that would need to be handled (ie. I go on vacation, my system
> is going to be down for extended period, so I unsubscribe and resubscribe
> later).

I do not see the difference between -private and -devel's proposed format
about this matter.

Regards,

Hugo

-- 
Hugo Haas (http://www.via.ecp.fr/~hugo/)


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