Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Apr 1997 22:07:38 -0800 | From | Orasis <> | Subject | Re: URGENT: A Plea to the owners of linux.dev.kernel |
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Dave Wreski wrote:
On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > I've noticed that when the mailing list got gatewayed to USENET, the > average quality of the postings went *way* down. At least (as far as I > know), most of the people who actually write code are still listening on > this list, even if they don't post as much these days.
We can't necessarily prevent people from usenet from posting lame questions, but we could at least consider having an 'info' field on
majordomo@vger. I remember subscribing, and seeing 'No info for linux-kernel'.
How hard is this to implement? A simple message describing the acceptable content would seem to be a prudent first step.
Dave
IMHO, the info field should also include the names of other semi-related mailing lists for specific topics so that people don't end up asking SMP questions on the wrong list etc....
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