On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:25:24 -0700 Bill Campbell centos@celestial.com wrote:
Personally I prefer the more general lists rather than splitting off into a bunch of more specific ones. I often learn things by reading messages that I would see on more targeted lists. The more general lists also seem more likely to engender a feeling of community (the linux-sxs.org nee Caldera list is a case in point).
I tend to agree with you, actually. The Fedora list, for example, seems to work fine as far as I can see (most of the time, anyway), and I just skip over anything that doesn't look interesting to me.
However, I can appreciate that some folks may not want to deal with the "noise" and, when it comes to Centos, where else are you going to take it in that case?
I suspect that most of the discussion and question ask-and-answer stuff currently dealt with here will migrate to the new list within a short period of time, simply because it will be more free-wheeling and easy to post to. This list will become much less active and relevant if that occurs.
Accordingly, I plan to subscribe to both lists when the second one is created and hope to continue to learn stuff.