--On torsdag, januari 31, 2013 11.52.08 -0800 Shaun Reitan shaun.reitan@ndchost.com wrote:
I for one have never been a fan of mailing lists, at least the way they are mostly used today. People use them like a forum, assuming everybody wants to know everybody's problems. Mailing lists in my opinion should be used for announcements and notifications only. All the other chatter should go on a forum where users can subscribe and unsubscribe to threads that they find important. That being said, I've only been on this mailing list for 24 hours so far and I'm already doing what you said, deleting the mail without even looking at it (although I did read this message). My guess would be that in another 24-48 hours I'll probably turn off email delivery's entirely, that?s usually what happens. Maybe this ML needs to be split into mirror-announcements and mirror-users so that some of us that only care about the important things can subscribe to announcements and leave the users chatter to those who want to receive it. Still my opinion is that chatter belongs in a forum.
I mostly agree. BUT -- most of what is sent here would not make any sense in a forum either because it is simply not relevant for anyone but the mirror admins and the master admins. A 1-to-1 communication is perfectly carried out using direct email or any two-part message passing system.
In addition, I would like a slightly more relaxed "rule" of what can lists can be used for. For example, it may be usefull to _more than one_ mirror to know of temporary problems with the master or tier1 mirrors. If a leaf mirror (having only end users) on the other hand is offline I couldn't care less.
A would also consider tool tips ok for the list, tuning discussions, what people use for their reports etc ok, but """how do I read the rsync man page""" would not (It would fit a web page or forum.)
Imo it is actually a rather simple question; is this information interesting for anyone but me and the recipient. If it isn't a list is not the place.
Best regards, Emil