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).