Re: time to split the list?
Yes!!
(In addition,
a master containing all messages would probobly be appreciated by
the thorough, the obsesive and the idle.)
ALSO: Making either the master or all subsets available as a digest
would REALLY help! I'm getting the firewall list this way.
It's very tidy.
(Perhaps those maintaining it could offer some pointers.)
- ef
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Richard G. Roberto wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> > Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
> > level of technical discussion that sometimes goes on there. Is it time
> > to split the list? About 2 years ago I proposed a separate list just for
> > people trying to install the system. At the time we did not have enough
> > traffic for that. We probably do now.
> >
> > I would propose:
> >
> > debian-install
> > debian-nontechnical
> > debian-technical
> >
> > Now I just have to find our list administrator :-) .
> >
> > Bruce
> >
>
> This sounds like a good idea, but I'd sure like to see one
> of the lists a superset of the others if that's possible (a
> la crossposting?) Also, there's a new section in linux
> journal providing help with various distributions. Last
> time I checked, Debian didn't have an entry. Perhaps we
> should come up with a debian-support list?
>
> Thanks
>
> Richard G. Roberto
> richr@bear.com
> 201-739-2886 - whippany, nj
>
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