Kenneth Porter wrote: > On Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:24 AM +0800 John Summerfield > <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote: > >> 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. > > How much mail is release-specific? I would guess such threads would be > mostly about installation, so it might be better to split off a -install > list. Traffic about getting drivers to work might also be redirected to > such a list. Installation and remastering 4 is very different from 5, following the intro of yum into Anaconda. Applications to do stuff tend to change wu-imapd is out, dovecot and cyrus are in. Pine is out, mutt is in. Networking configuration's changed. lprNG is out, CUPS is in. Lotsa stuff changes. Have a look at the release notes, see what's expunged and what's deprecated. > > Runtime packages should be pretty common among all releases and might as > well be in -users. > > You might also consider reading the list with a news reader through > gmane to avoid the download cost. That would be worse: [summer at bilby ~]$ ping -c4 terad.net PING terad.net (203.15.140.104) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from terad.net (203.15.140.104): icmp_seq=0 ttl=247 time=1116 ms 64 bytes from terad.net (203.15.140.104): icmp_seq=1 ttl=247 time=1345 ms 64 bytes from terad.net (203.15.140.104): icmp_seq=2 ttl=247 time=366 ms 64 bytes from terad.net (203.15.140.104): icmp_seq=3 ttl=247 time=1504 ms --- terad.net ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 5380ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 366.190/1083.366/1504.692/436.421 ms, pipe 3 [summer at bilby ~]$ I'm pulling a gbyte/month through a modem. Interactive through that modem is largely out. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list