Fedora Community: Under threat?

[Rob Kirkbride]

D. D. Brierton wrote on 28/01/2005 09:02:

>I work for a living. I have no idea what most of the other people on
>this list do, but I often feel in a minority. This list should have a
>narrow focus, restricted to using Fedora, and that's it. But instead we
>have all manner of ridiculous threads, not all of them flame wars, that
>go on and on and on. For the last couple of months I actually suspended
>delivery from this list because I just couldn't cope with the volume.
>Even as it is, I skim through messages, quite possibly missing things
>that i could either learn from or help others with just because there is
>too much traffic. Who's at fault? Well there is no one else to blame but
>ourselves. We *are* the list. Either we decide to only respond to
>genuine questions and issues, and ignore the trolls and flame-bait, or
>we give into our urges and wreck this community completely. Given the
>traffic the last couple of days I have myself considered unsubscribing.
>Which is a shame, as whilst that flame war was going on I was helping
>someone who was a complete newbie actually install Fedora. Shame on
>everyone who perpetuated that total waste of time with so little
>consideration for the silent majority on this list.
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I totally agree. I like to help out where I can but in the morning when 
I get on, there's usually over 200 messages. Most of the time I just 
delete the messages because the real requests for help get lost in the 
mix. As you say it also restricts our ability to learn and also improve 
the product.

I certainly ignore the obviously trolling and annoying advocacy type 
stuff  (where there's another group for). I wish everyone would do the same!

Rob