hey filipe...
since i'm the op, who posted the app question thread, get back to me with your email address, and i'll gladly talk to you, particularly since as you put it, my question was vague... but the funny thing.. someone from this list pointed my in the direction of a company/app that appears to do what i'm looking for.. so it must not have been too vague...
peace..
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Filipe Brandenburger Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 6:00 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] new list proposal
Hi,
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 20:41, Kenneth Price kprice@nowyouknow.net wrote:
----- "Jeff" jlar310@gmail.com wrote:
I favor one-stop shopping.
I believe creating another list is a mistake. [...] a second list will only encourage cross-posting.
I second that.
As I see it, although this talk of what is on or off topic started on the thread about "parted" (which in my opinion is relevant to CentOS), the thing that really started this was the thread with subject "App Question", which was a cross-post to three different lists with a question as generic as it can get.
A second list will not fix this, the offender will just cross-post to one more list.
Another good example of why this does not work is that, although the centos-virt list exists, many topics that are virtualization-related are discussed on the main list. This does not bother me at all since I subscribe to both.
Sincerely, I believe the most effective tool to reduce the noise would be to reply *off list* to offenders telling them that they should step up and behave properly if they want to take part of the list. Top posting/trimming/html could also be handled with off list replies. This would have the bonus of not creating more noise and having the offender get tons of replies giving them yet another incentive to follow the rules.
The decision is not mine, but I would oppose creating a new list. However, if you do, I will sign up too.
Anyway, just my 2ยข Canadian.
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