Re: ..d-u support sponsorships, was: Problem with ppp keeping link up
Mike Mestnik wrote:
 --- Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net> wrote:
 How about breaking up the list in to several smaller lists, like
 debian-fierwall.
Already exists, but is under used.
I think that many post 'wall questions to d-u because of the higher 
population, and therefore the greater potential for an applicable answer.
I think that if all firewall questions were to be transferred to 
debian-firewall that would not remain the case though, and the potential 
for this specialised list would grow to potential.
 For today the names like debian-user1 and debian-user2 could be used
 to provide at least some level of maintanable/readable material. I
 don't know how many mails a day the d-u lists gets, but I'm guessing
 more then 16 a day is too many.
I would suggest the creation of only one other list, and this would be 
for system/network admin.
This would create a list to cater for the more professional end of the 
market, while still maintaining d-u as an end user list, that a lot of 
admins would still employ.
With these two lists realised I think that the high volume of d-u would 
be brought back to manageable levels, increasing list user satisfaction 
as they would cater more efficiently to requirement.
I don't belive that any more disc space would be taken up, as the admin 
crowd are already active on d-u.
it would simply make d-u more manageable and specific itself.
Regards,
David.
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