Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Feb 1999 12:35:21 +0000 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: [ANN] new mailing list |
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Hi,
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 12:52:09PM +0100, Rik van Riel wrote:
(maybe we need a mailing list to discuss mailing list issues :)
> Hmm, what do you think we could do to reduce the traffic > on linux-kernel? The way it is now it's so busy that it > actually hampers the debugging of the kernel and helping > people with problems.
You could do something really wacky like:
Make it impossible to post to linux-kernel directly; people have to post to the 'sub-lists', then all messages to the sub lists are combined and sent to linux-kernel subscribers. That way people have to choose the appropriate sub-list to post to, and people who don't want to sub to the whole linux-kernel package can choose sub-lists.
How you get people to post to the right list and not to cc to irrelevent ones is still a problem though. In most real world systems, it tends to be the people who are the problem :)
S.
-- "I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science." -- Donald E. Knuth, TAoCP vol 3
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