[rhn-users] The purpose of this mailing list

[Máirín Duffy]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> Thanks Máirín, these changes will he people decide better whether they 
> should subcribe, but it won't fix currently subscribed people sending 
> (or answering) off-topic mails.
> 
> I'd propose to (for one or 2 weeks) answer off-topic mails like I did with 
> the last 2 off-topic mails, just so there is a definitive statement from 
> Red Hat.
> 
> The rationale should be that off-topic posters are better off on another 
> mailinglist for their own sake. And my opinion (and I know other people 
> disagree about this) is that such statements ought to be public in order 
> to be generally useful.

This sounds reasonable to me.

~m