Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?

[THUFIR HAWAT]

oops, can i retract my tone, please?

a private news server is fine :)


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Thufir Hawat


----- Original Message -----
From: "THUFIR HAWAT" <thufir.hawat at mail.com>
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 07:55:16 +0000

> 
> this is absolutely the crux of the issue; the quantity of this list 
> itself is spam.
> 
> you haven't established that enforcement of the "be nice" policy is 
> required, though.  there're plenty of technical news groups which are 
> alive and well; their existence serves as a counter example that "be 
> nice" has to be enforcable.
> 
> ok, let's work from the premise that the "be nice" policy (good 
> choice of words) has to be enforcable.  is enforcement compatible 
> with nntp, or, can it be made compatible?  even if they're they're 
> incompatible, to not use nntp is to throw the baby out with the 
> bathwater.
> 
> what are the goals here? minimize spam, maximize community 
> involvement (quantity and quality of the material) *and* good 
> archiving, so that questions don't repeatedly come up.
> 
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> Thufir Hawat
> 
> 
> //////////////cut and paste from archive////////////////////
> Re: Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?,
> 
>      * From: Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>
>      * To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com>
>      * Subject: Re: Solution Coming Re: Fedora Community: Under threat?,
>      * Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:49:04 -0500
> [..]
> In order to keep spam down, and to institute unique policies ("be nice",
> say), it's probably best to have a private news server rather than public
> newsgroups.
> 
> 
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