On 11/24/2010 05:36 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
I find lists where there's fairly open discussion of topics more useful than those that deal with very narrow topics. It's
generic lists are more suited to, as you pointed out LUG's and social groups - this is a fairly product/ platform centric list. Besides, talking about the platform it would be hard to say that this is a very narrow focused list. the ppc-on-cell-bootloader list might fit that mould quite well, I dont think the CentOS list does.
amazing how many times I learn something useful that I never would have seen on a restricted list (e.g. I learned about the Mac RSS reader NetNewsWire on a local Linux group list).
Its more than a bit disheartening to see this list compared to a LUG effort :(
If a topic is uninteresting, ctrl-d with mutt on the thread nukes it quickly.
Thats looking at things, much like many others did, from a personal perspective and not one of the project / list admins. I might want the list to go in a specific way, but that may or may not be what's good for the longer term health of the list.
- KB