Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user
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On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:28:52AM -0800, Hereon wrote:
> 1) The Debian user community is substantially suboptimally served
> with the existence of the current debian-user list.
Howso? If you're going to make those claims, back it up.
> 2) The debian-user list is _unnecessarily_ overtrafficked,
> [due to it being the most likely place to ask user questions, and find
> answers, regarding both Stable(Woody), and
> Testing/Unstable(Sarge/Sid)]
> which causes several problems for the Debian community:
> a) Wasted mental effort discerning which version a message
> pertains to,
> b) Wasted mental effort searching for information on either
> Woody or Sarge/Sid in the (currently) combined list.
What justifies making it harder to find the right mailing list, and
having to change up to a different mailing list with each version?
Why limit the number of people who would read your message who might
be able to help?
> 3) The Debian community would be much better served
> a) by the creation now of two new mailing lists, called:
> 1) debian-user-woody, or possibly debian-user-stable,
> or possibly debian-user-3
> 2) debian-user-sarge, or possibly debian-user-sid,
> or possibly debian-user-sargesid,
> or debian-user-testing, or possibly debian-user-unstable,
> or possibly debian-user-testingunstable,
> or possibly debian-user-4,
> b) and, perhaps, by deactivating debian-user.
Again, if you're going to make such an incredible claim, back it up.
> 1) The repeated need for QUESTION ASKERS to specify which of the two
> versions their question refers to.
So?
> 2) The repeated need for READERS to be constantly alert as to which of
> the two versions each message is referring to.
So?
> 3) The difficluty of being unable to easily FIND INFORMATION in the list
> archives relevant to a topic on which you want some information/data.
Google is your friend.
> These problems could be eliminated, and no new long term problems more
> serious than the current situation would occur, through the creation of
> two new mailing lists, perhaps called
> debian-user-woody and debian-user-sarge,
> and perhaps by deactivating the current debian-user list.
No, the consequences of these could be reduced by following some
common-sense guidelines.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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