Re: Making -devel discussions more viable
* Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> [120501 18:18]:
> David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> writes:
> > "Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org> writes:
>
> >> My suggestion to everyone feeling the need to tell anyone on a public
> >> mailing list that they should shut up because they are no contributors
> >> is thus: Please refrain from any more posts to this discussion.
>
> > I have nothing against this principle, and I do this. But I also stop
> > reading such threads. And this means I read less and less of this list.
>
> Right. As good as that idea sounds on the surface, what that actually
> translates into in practice is making debian-devel useless.
And how does enhancing the noise rate by adding mails not about technical
arguments make the mailing lists useful?
Bernhard R. Link
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