Ralph Angenendt wrote: >> Eg. Can we have a section that says : Xen, and then list the Xen mailing >> lists, and some url's - maybe 3 - 4 to start with. > > Hmmmm. Yes, it could take traffic away from the users list. > >> to start with, maybe we can just start off with a list of Alternative >> Mailing Lists that might help with specific issues ( Xen, Bind, samba etc ) > > And here is where I see a problem. The samba "support infrastructure" > tends to tell users "Use a current version". Same goes (kind of) for > postfix. And: Both mailing lists are *really* high traffic. > > I don't know about Xen or bind ... a fair guess would be that they are in exactly the same boat. > So: Do we really want to do that? Or do we get more questions like "My > samba-3.30.40 doesn't work. And the samba guys told me to use that."? its a sort of catch-22 situation, should we just not talk about the upstream projects or link to them because of this issue ? Maybe we can have a little bit of info about this 'gotcha' and list the project pages / mailing lists / support forums ? I am not saying that we should go ahead and create these pages to link all over the place, but what I am saying is - do we need to have a conversation about this sometime soon and see what can / if anything - be done. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq