[CentOS-mirror] New Mirror comes
Emil
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Fri Feb 1 10:22:56 UTC 2013
--On torsdag, januari 31, 2013 11.52.08 -0800 Shaun Reitan
<shaun.reitan at ndchost.com> wrote:
> I for one have never been a fan of mailing lists, at least the way
> they are mostly used today. People use them like a forum, assuming
> everybody wants to know everybody's problems. Mailing lists in my
> opinion should be used for announcements and notifications only.
> All the other chatter should go on a forum where users can subscribe
> and unsubscribe to threads that they find important. That being
> said, I've only been on this mailing list for 24 hours so far and
> I'm already doing what you said, deleting the mail without even
> looking at it (although I did read this message). My guess would be
> that in another 24-48 hours I'll probably turn off email delivery's
> entirely, that?s usually what happens. Maybe this ML needs to be
> split into mirror-announcements and mirror-users so that some of us
> that only care about the important things can subscribe to
> announcements and leave the users chatter to those who want to
> receive it. Still my opinion is that chatter belongs in a forum.
>
I mostly agree. BUT -- most of what is sent here would not make any
sense in a forum either because it is simply not relevant for anyone
but the mirror admins and the master admins. A 1-to-1 communication
is perfectly carried out using direct email or any two-part message
passing system.
In addition, I would like a slightly more relaxed "rule" of what can
lists can be used for. For example, it may be usefull to _more than
one_ mirror to know of temporary problems with the master or tier1
mirrors. If a leaf mirror (having only end users) on the other hand
is offline I couldn't care less.
A would also consider tool tips ok for the list, tuning discussions,
what people use for their reports etc ok, but """how do I read the
rsync man page""" would not (It would fit a web page or forum.)
Imo it is actually a rather simple question; is this information
interesting for anyone but me and the recipient. If it isn't a list
is not the place.
Best regards,
Emil
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