--On torsdag, januari 31, 2013 11.52.08 -0800 Shaun Reitan <shaun.reitan at 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