Dnia 25-02-2005, pią o godzinie 00:45 +0100, Anne Possoz napisał(a):
That make sense. But wouldn't it be enough to have a special quote at the beginning of the subject like [Centos] [ANNOUNCE] [Centos] [SECURITY] so that filtering could satisfy anyone.
Well, no. Not everyone want (or even know how) to play with procmail. It's simpler to just subscribe to the information you want. I can use VFolders instead of procmail, but that requires downloading all of the messages to my computer, which takes a really long time on my link (and there are people with 28800 modems). Even if I do use procmail (well, I do), think about how much of caosity.org's bandwidth will go monthly just to be dropped on the other side... If this list produces 5 MiB of traffic monthly and announces would produce 50 KiB, think about the difference of sending it out to 1000 people.
I know all the other projects having and *-announce lists can be wrong, but they really spend less machine and human power thanks to that lists :)
Lam