[CentOS-mirror] People wanting to leave this list

[Ján ONDREJ (SAL)]

I agree too, thank this list disturbs me and I need to lower traffic
from this list. Please make an mirror-announce list.

		Thank you.
					SAL

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 08:30:44AM -0700, Jim Kusznir wrote:
> I think that the main problem is simply the new mirror requests are
> being sent to way too many people.  Why do we even need a mailing list
> at all?  Why not just create a special e-mail address, and that can be
> an internal alias to distribute to the 1-3 people in the CentOS system
> that need to see it.  I know I don't consider it remotely relevent,
> and I always found it annoying that mirror add/moves/deletes were sent
> on this list.  I just delete most traffic from this list directly.
> 
> --Jim
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Daniël Koop Yourwebhoster.eu
> <daniel at yourwebhoster.eu> wrote:
> > I've added a rule to outlook to move e-mails from this mailing list to a
> > special folder and I only search for the important e-mails. There are almost
> > none. Perhaps it's an idea to create a second list with notifications only.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org
> > [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Emil
> > Sent: maandag 16 juli 2012 17:15
> > To: Mailing list for CentOS mirrors.
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS-mirror] People wanting to leave this list
> >
> >
> >
> > --On måndag, juli 09, 2012 08.09.13 +0100 Karanbir Singh
> > <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote:
> >
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> People who want to leave this list : please keep in mind that you are
> >> required to remain subscribed to the mirror-announce list in order to
> >> remain listed as a public centos mirror, and we request all admins of
> >> mirrors to be present on this list. It is, after all, a very low
> >> traffic list, and when conversations do take place they tend to be
> >> things that would interest most mirror admins.
> >>
> >> having said that, if you still want to leave this list - send me an
> >> email offlist to the email address I'm emailing from and I'll make
> >> sure that you are removed  (although, you should be able to just
> >> unsubscribe yourself using the link at the bottom of all emails, so
> >> try that first )
> >>
> >> - KB
> >> --
> >> Karanbir Singh
> >
> >
> > Some thoughts on this;
> >
> > While mirror-announce may be a low-volume list it may be lower than what
> > people want.  General discussions and&or information that are not strictly
> > related to a release can be very interesting to.
> >
> > The problem with this list is the flood of "new mirror" mails, that probably
> > are only interesting to the mirror itself and the admins.
> >
> > What some other sites (linux distributions and other) have done in the past
> > is to have a special list for the new mirror requests.
> > That way the mirror admins can still discuss with each other (and the master
> > mirror admins) in an easy way, without the noice.  Maybe it is worth
> > considering for centos too?
> >
> >
> > As is the case now, for our mirror the centos new mirror requests pretty
> > much outweighs the _total_ mail amount from all other mirror lists we are
> > subscribed to (several tenths).  The amount _relevant_ (for us) information
> > however does not.
> >
> > That may be a factor to why people are leaving this list -- it is just to
> > much noice in relation to relevant information.
> >
> > Anyway, thanks for the reminder of mirror-announce!
> >
> > Best regards,
> >         Emil
> >
> >
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