proposal: mailing list reorganization

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Sun Jan 14 08:08:11 UTC 2007


On 1/13/07, Bernardo Innocenti <bernie at develer.com> wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 11 January 2007 22:31, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> >> What's the problem with high-traffic lists?  Today, almost anybody can
> >> afford the bandwidth and any half decent MUA can group by threads and
> >> apply powerful filters on the fly.
> >
> > Its not the high-traffic.  Its the amount of noise vs signal.  Lists like LKML
> > tend to have a lot of signal in that traffic.  While unfortunately lists like
> > fedora-devel have a lot of noise, that drives off the type of people who
> > could handle the traffic should it be all signal.  Even still its hard to
> > keep up, and READ that much email.
>
> Agreed.  Maybe we could take a more proactive approach towards
> off-topic posts, trolls and "what's a grub?" kinds of threads?
>
> The GCC guys are very zelant in keeping the gcc@ list clear of
> homework requests and other dumb questions.  And they've even
> learnt to do that in a politely way instead of pissing off all
> the newbies.
>
> Just grep the gcc list archives for the word "gcc-help".


Maybe an introductory email (with rules) be sent upon subscription to
a list, and standard responses to the type of unwanted message you
described be developed, so that those familiar to the list can just
copy and paste as a response.


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