Re: New mailling list (debian-discuss) ? (Was: Re: DFSG Macromedia Director File?)
On Sat, Apr 24, 1999 at 09:32:28AM -0700, Darren O. Benham wrote:
> > > Hmm, yes let me subscribve to another volume list for no reason but
> > > to read more flame and garbage. Sorry, I just don't see it and we
> > > all know people will just cc -devel to get more people to read it
> > > (or even -private).
> >
> > Why would they? There are a fair amount of completely non technical
> > things that get brought up on -devel, and reasonable people will
> > realize that, and post to the appropriate list. Currently, there is
> > no appropriate list. If people are not reasonable, then we are
> They can't post to the "appropriate" list now... just look at some of the
> stuff coming across -private now... People post where they think their fud
> will get read, not where it's appropriate
However, if we had an appropriate list for that kind of messages, the
listmasters and everybody else annoyed by them would have good reasons
to most violently react against those who don't abide by the rules.
BTW we could even not archive the -discuss list, to save more resources...
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