If you wondered why Intel sucks on Fedora read this

[John Summerfield]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>

> stuff is going to go there and not here. It doesn't seem logical to
> subscribe to f-t-l and not to f-l, but again, that's your call. I'd be
> very surprised if it was the common case.

Be surprised. Be very surprised.

The Fedora list has way too much traffic for my taste.
> 
>> But to be fair, it should be sent to both mailing lists at the same time
>> so that mailman can figure out who's already seen it.
> 
> What makes you think Mailman works like this? There's no indication

It does not. It can prevent addressees in any given email on one list 
from getting a copy from the list, but that's as far as it goes.

> whatever that that's what happens. In fact AFAIK Mailman keeps separate
> lists entirely separate. There's no reasonable way it could do anything
> else, especially if the subscribers to both lists are not identical.
> 
> The trouble with cross-posting in this way is that it immediately forks
> the threads into two sets of replies. This doesn't do anyone any good.

That's not so clear to me. Probably, the technical skills of those 
subscribed to this list are more advanced than those on F-L, so 
discussions might well take entirely different paths.

Now, can we please get back to the subject of the original email, and 
dispense with the "crime" of posting it to two lists.



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John

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