[CentOS] CentOS-announce mailing list

[Steven Vishoot]

--- Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 17:21 -0400, John Hinton
> wrote:
> > Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> > > Dominik Składanowski wrote:
> > >   
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> does it true every CentOS mailing list
> subscriber gets a digests from  
> > >> CentOS-announce mailing list?
> > >>     
> > >
> > > Yes. The single announcements are posted to the
> announce-list only, the
> > > digests are posted to the centos list also.
> There's been a big
> > > discussion about that last year(?), IIRC.
> > >
> > > Ralph
> > >   
> > Yeah, but my vote to do it this way has become
> wrong. And it was 
> > originally set this way nearly two years ago..
> after a very lengthy 
> > barrage of discussion. In the meantime, much has
> grown within the CentOS 
> > community. There are now at least two more distros
> for different systems 
> > along with 4.X being added... So that gives us
> 2.X, 3.X and 4.X in the 
> > 4? various flavors. This can occasionally be 12
> announcements for one 
> > update... when 5 hits, 16. If I had my vote to do
> over, I'd vote for an 
> > announce list for each distro and each system. And
> to rehash yet again 
> > another thing... the subject line is so long that
> I need to expand by 
> > mailreader to 1250 or so wide before I can read
> what the announcement 
> > actually regards as in system and CentOS
> version....
> > 
> > I'd vote for pure announce lists at this point...
> but, I'm so totally in 
> > awe of all the work the CentOS team does which is
> of such huge benefit 
> > to me, that I really hate to even say anything
> about this... But it is 
> > time for me to start doing some filtering. Arghhh!
> > 
> > And I promise to not say anything again, at least
> until 6 comes out. ;)
> > 
> 
> You do know that the announce list has topics,
> right?
> 
> You can pick CentOS 4 i386 and not see the other
> announce list
> messages ...
> 
> Not sure what the problem is.
> 
> 
> 
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Johnny,

I have looked at my subscribtion and i do not see
anywhere i can choose what platform i want for the
annouce list.


Steven
 

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