Moderate this list?
Ernest L. Williams Jr.
ernesto at ornl.gov
Thu Nov 6 05:26:37 UTC 2003
Is the support for Xinerama better in Fedora?
I will be buying a few NVIDIA Quadro NVS 400.
Trying to get away from the Matrox G200
Thanks,
Ernesto
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 23:29, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Damian Donnelly wrote:
>
> >I think moderating this list, as suggested, is a good idea. The
> >amount of abuse (personal opinion and nit-picking) of this
> >mailing list today has almost convinced me to unsuscribe.
> >
> >Pull yourselves together.
>
> I agree with your second sentence completely. It's tiring to
> read the same old repeated tirades day in and day out, especially
> on a list like fedora-devel which is supposed to be strictly
> about development. I know many people have commented both
> internally at Red Hat and externally along the general idea of
> "whoa, there's so much crap coming in it's hard to sift the
> useful interesting stuff and on topic stuff from all the rants
> and raves and garbage" and similar. I agree, I can't keep up
> with it all, so I sift looking for "XFree86" in people's
> subjects, skip over subjects that are obvious neverending
> flamewars and pointless ranting, and try to find useful mails to
> reply to.
>
> It's such a pileup of mostly total garbage though, so as to make
> the signal level very low compared to the noise. I might move
> the list out of my pine search path into my archive path, just to
> avoid the volume of what is mostly pointless garbage and
> bitching. ;o)
>
> The other alternatives at least for me are to:
>
> 1) Set a procmail filter to delete anything without XFree86 or
> other special keywords in the subject
>
> 2) Unsubscribe
>
>
> Moderation would be nice in theory, but there's 2 problems with
> that:
>
> 1) People would scream bloody murder 10 times more and claim Red
> Hat is an evil closed blah blah for having a moderated list and
> their freedom of speech is being withheld and censored, blah blah
> blah. So that would never ever work out, if anything it would
> generate 2 times as much useless off topic junkmail.
>
> and
>
> 2) Someone would have to moderate each post. That would be more
> or less a full time job, and if the purpose of it was to kill off
> topic and/or totally useless threads, most of the list traffic
> would almost completely vanish IMHO, making the list pretty
> quiet. ;o)
>
>
> So, I think people want the lists open, thats fine, but then
> people get what they get, which at least currently is cacophony
> on fedora-devel-list, fedora-test-list, and fedora-list all 3
> lists of which are almost indistinguishable from one another
> contentwise. I wonder if they'd make good bayesian filter data
> for spamassassin though. ;o)
>
> Anyway, that's my $0.03 CDN. ;oP
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Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto at ornl.gov>
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