On Fri, Oct 17, 2008, Spiro Harvey wrote:
Given the overall poor reception of the idea, I'd just put it on the back burner for now...
yes, thats sounding like a good idea for the time being.
I don't think it is a good idea. I think that we need two separate lists. One for general users, one for server sysadmins.
What we don't know from all the people against splitting the list is in what capacity they are using CentOS. Are they desktop users? Are they running their own home network? Are they small-time sysadmins? Are they managing a Tier 1 ISP?
I am against splitting, and support a fairly large number of machines here, and at our customer sites. Our customers range from small businesses with fewer than a single Linux box and fewer than a dozen users to regional ISPs with thousands of clients.
I subscribe to about 30 Mailman lists based on the number of monthly reminder notices sitting in my postmaster mail folder here, and we host a small number of Mailman lists as well.
I answer more questions on lists like this than I ask, and have been doing similar e-mail and usenet stuff since the mid '80s when I was a co-moderator on several COMPUSERVE *nix related lists.
FWIW, I have been supporting, integrating, and adminstering *nix systems for 26 years, and Linux systems since 1995 or so starting with Caldera, then SuSE, and now CentOS with a smattering of other Linux systems, FreeBSD, etc. just to make life interesting.
As I said before, I scan the subjects of new threaded messages looking for things that look interesting, deleting far more than I read (hint to newbies -- make subjects meaninful, not just ``help'').
Bill