[CentOS] New lists

[John Summerfield]

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> I don't understand the current rationale for a single CentOS users' 
>> list; probably in times past it was sensible, but I think the time has 
>> come for splitting the list by release.
> 
> We've been down this route before - and the same things are going to be 
> said now that were said previously, we are not going to be splitting the 
> list based on Release and/or Arch. It might have worked for others, but 
> we dont want to split the community up into fragments. And, personally, 
> I think this is working very well - we get max eyeballs and people dont 
> need to be subscribed to a multiple lists to keep an eye on stuff.
> 
> Perhaps when membership of the list hits 50,000 we might reconsider - 
> but were not there yet.
> 
> What might be worth looking at was to create more lists ( not split ) 
> based on technology (eg. CentOS-Clustering ), but we've not really had 
> any request for those, afict.
> 
> And as Les has already pointed out - most stuff in the lists is common.
> 
> perhaps you should consider compress'd digests for your mailing lists 
> traffic.


Okay, now we have a decision I'm outta here.

You said I'm not the first to raise the matter. You need to listen and 
consider the disadvantaged amongst your number.







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John

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