[CentOS] New lists

[Ioannis Vranos]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Think of this as a motion as one might move at a meeting. Discussion and 
> refinement are in order.
> 
> 
> I don't understand the current rationale for a single CentOS users' 
> list; probably in times past it was sensible, but I think the time has 
> come for splitting the list by release.
> 
> I'm speaking from my own perspective, but I'm sure others have similar 
> stories. How many users use all CentOS releases?
> 
> I am not on the Fedora users' list because of the volume of email, 
> though I do use Fedora Core and might usefully contribute to FC in that 
> way.
> 
> Similarly, I'm no longer on the OpenSUSE list, same story.
> 
> The time has come when I must, again, reduce the volume of email I see, 
> because it's clogging my modem.
> 
> I use CentOS4 and plan to use CentOS5. I am interested in email for 
> those, but not for CentOS 3 (I have no systems) nor CentOS 2 (I have one 
> RHL 7.3 system that thinks it's CentOS 2, but it's in maintenance mode, 
> and anything I do I will do alone).
> 
> I don't know how much email I would eliminate by dropping email for 
> Centos < C4, but when I move to CentOS 5 I will lose interest in C4 and 
> then there will be savings.
> 
> If this list were split into one for each release, then subscribers 
> could choose which email they see. At present, it's all or none, and 
> neither suits me.
> 
> If this list is split into four, then I expect the transition method 
> would be to subscribe everyone on this list to the new four.
> 
> At some point, this would become read-only (nobody posts), or maybe all 
> mail for this goes (via a filter to fix the headers) to all the others.
> 
> By "fix the headers" I mean "do whatever it takes to ensure replies go 
> to the list the subscriber is replying to."
> 
> I'm sure this transition arrangement is imperfect; my objectives are to 
> encourage CentOS to have the separate lists, and to ensure that the 
> transition is fairly easy for users so we don't lose lots of subscribers.
> 
> What do others think?


For the time I have been in this list, I do not remember seeing any 
message about CentOS 3.x or older. I think what should be done is 
reducing the amount of emails per digest, so as to be able to use mime 
digests, which I think currently is not feasible, due to the amount of 
the messages per digest.

This is feasible, does not modify the size of emails, and is a 
correction to a mailing list "bug" (I consider not being able to use 
mime digests which is available as an option, a bug).