Les Mikesell wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > >>>>> I'm speaking from my own perspective, but I'm sure others have >>>>> similar stories. How many users use all CentOS releases? >>>> I totally agree John - as CentOS gets more popular i too have found >>>> myself using 'Mark folder as Read' too often. >>> >>> This is a good thing. I've just left the Fedora Core mailing lists >>> (users & devel) and the traffic didn't bother me at all. It's a great >> >> Not everyone can have such a fine Internet connexion. > > There's always gmail if you'd rather have a web interface and not worry > about the bulk of messages you skip. I can't read offline. > >>> Splitting by version is usually a bad idea. It causes things to >>> split, people post the wrong version information to the wrong lists >>> and it becomes a PITA. Hell, I've noticed enough people whinge and >>> moan about top posting... Imagine that on someone posting a v5 >>> question to a v4 list! >> >> I thought it worked very well indeed with Red Hat Linux. I note that >> Red Hat continues with that plan with RHEL. > > What happens if the person who knows the answer to a version 3 question > has moved on to version 4? Or questions about the 90+% of things that > are identical across all unix-like systems? > Nothing's perfect. Why not everyone join the Fedora list? Just about everything that's in CentOS has been in Fedora too. As I said, it seems to work in other places. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list