Messages in this thread | | | From | "Tim Bird" <> | Date | Thu, 3 Apr 1997 11:15:59 -0700 | Subject | It's not obvious for some this is a development list |
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news@bath wrote: > Terence J. McDevitt wrote: > > > > I subscribed to this list because I saw the name "linux-kernel". > > To me, this name does not imply development only questions. So when I ask > > a question about upgrading to a newer kernel and everyone jumps all over > > me about it, maybe there's a reason I'm posting a question like that. I > > don't mind going to another list, but again, by the way it reads, this is > > not a list devoted to developers... > > Sorry, Terence, but what exactly did you think the 'dev' in > linux.dev.kernel > meant, if not developer (or development)?
Maybe he didn't notice all the headers on the messages, or maybe they were hidden by his mailer. To join this list, I subscribed to "linux-kernel" (notice the absence of 'dev' in the name). It may not be entirely obvious to newcomers that this list is also mirrored to linux.dev.kernel, and that the charter is kernel _development_. When I subscribed, there was no charter message.
Maybe if the mailing list name on rutgers more closely approximated the news name, this confusion would be reduced.
Tim Bird
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