On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:58:03 -0500, Ken Bass kbass@kenbass.com wrote:
Me too.
My first post to this list was the exact same question. I totally agree.
Francois
I think it is an aiternative, like many other mailing lists of Linux distributions adopts.
But for a time being, "CentOS Digest" mode is available for such a purpose from CentOS discussion and information list.
Regards.
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:16:16 +0900, Green green@r8.dion.ne.jp wrote:
But for a time being, "CentOS Digest" mode is available for such a purpose from CentOS discussion and information list.
I'm sorry, but I don't see how a large digest of a high traffic list helps fill out the need for a low-traffic announce-only list.
The point is, we want to be able to know in 2 seconds if updates are available.
Francois
Francois Caen wrote:
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:16:16 +0900, Green green@r8.dion.ne.jp wrote:
But for a time being, "CentOS Digest" mode is available for such a purpose from CentOS discussion and information list.
I'm sorry, but I don't see how a large digest of a high traffic list helps fill out the need for a low-traffic announce-only list.
Sure.
The point is, we want to be able to know in 2 seconds if updates are available.
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.
I am not sure that more mailing lists will help to be a community. IMHO.
Anne
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:45:56 +0100, Anne Possoz anne.possoz@epfl.ch wrote:
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.
That would work, I could filter based on it.
I am not sure that more mailing lists will help to be a community. IMHO.
Different people have different needs and interests. I'm already part of other communities like my local LUG. So I'm mostly interested in Announces from Centos, not really in "how do I burn CDs?" and the like.
Francois
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
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