Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:55:27 +0000 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: [ANN] new mailing list |
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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Rik van Riel wrote:
> on special request from a few people and because the > linux-kernel traffic still is too high, I have set up > a new mailing list: > linux-testers@nl.linux.org [snip] > Please move non-necessary stuff out of linux-kernel and > onto one of the more appropriate lists!
So you'd have us move all of the on-topic stuff from linux-kernel onto your lists, leaving only the licence flamewars, slashdot urls, spam discussion and maybe the odd bug report? No thanks.
There is a stage at which list granularity becomes a bad thing. If linux-kernel becomes linux-testers, linux-bugs, &c. then all that will happen is that people subscribe to all of the lists or crosspost.
The linux-mm list doesn't seem to have an awful lot of discussion which doesn't also make it to linux-kernel. This is admirable for a low-traffic list - allow people to subscribe to a 10msg/week list instead of 300/day, but doesn't really reduce load on the vger lists.
You make it harder for people like myself to lurk on these lists without significantly reducing the work required to lurk - if someone announces a new and exciting hack, I'd like to see the announcement and read the patch. I don't want to be on linux-kernel, linux-testers, linux-mm and linux-nasty-hacks just to see the same stuff of interest that I can currently see on linux-kernel.
You're moving the wrong traffic off the list, Rik.
Matthew - now only on 25 mailing lists
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