Karanbir Singh wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: >> 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. > > We've been down this route before - and the same things are going to be > said now that were said previously, we are not going to be splitting the > list based on Release and/or Arch. It might have worked for others, but > we dont want to split the community up into fragments. And, personally, > I think this is working very well - we get max eyeballs and people dont > need to be subscribed to a multiple lists to keep an eye on stuff. > > Perhaps when membership of the list hits 50,000 we might reconsider - > but were not there yet. > > What might be worth looking at was to create more lists ( not split ) > based on technology (eg. CentOS-Clustering ), but we've not really had > any request for those, afict. > > And as Les has already pointed out - most stuff in the lists is common. > > perhaps you should consider compress'd digests for your mailing lists > traffic. Okay, now we have a decision I'm outta here. You said I'm not the first to raise the matter. You need to listen and consider the disadvantaged amongst your number. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list