Michelle Konzack wrote:
Attention: Please Cc me if you answer from debian-user (curently I am ========== not subscribed, because the traffic and an ADSL Problem)Am 2003-12-01 10:40:40, schrieb Tim Folger:This is a very good idea. It might be easiest if the lists were named debian-stable, debian-testing, and debian-unstable, rather than debian-woody, etc, since the release names will be changing.Hello all, Curently my Server is Off-Line becaue a problem with my ADSL-Connection... But I have Websites for SLINK, POTATO, WOODY and SARGE and for each website a Mailinglist. I think, named mailinglists like debian-woody are better then debian-stable because there are some peple which are running older Hardware and can not install WOODY, SARGE,...Which mean, that even if someone like to install SLINK on a 486, the Mailinglist will still availlable. For peoples which are willing to Help it will no problenm, because the traffic are naturaly decreasing on older Versions...Greetings Michelle
I think that this is a good idea overall. Since I also track a bit of freebsd stuff, I always liked their approach to having email lists for stable releases marked that way so one could join and see the issues for the current stable release. They also have freebsd-questions which provides a non-platform specific arena for questions.
Perhaps there should be a discussion whether a debian-questions mailing list could be used in addition to the release specific mailing lists?
One other minor point is that we have debian-user and debian-laptop which seems to focus on questions on all the versions for various platforms. debian-laptop focuses on mobile users it appears while debian-user is more generic. Will the debian-laptop mailing list also be divided up into different releases? I pose this question because we could make almost 6 or so mailing lists from the two we have now if we divide up both debian-user and debian-laptop into groups oriented toward releases. Would there be a move to bring together debian-user and debian-laptop into one list focusing on the releases or would we have debian-questions and debian-laptop-questions as an example?
The traffic on debian user usually means I subscribe only to the digest version and then I use formail to rip apart the archives into single emails. I would definitely subscribe to various lists because I administer personal systems running unstable and servers running stable. I am interested in the wisdom of the lists regarding how debian-user and debian-laptop would be organized or re-arranged (if at all).
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