Ioannis Vranos wrote: > 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 I have. > 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). Digests don't, so far as I can estimate, help more than marginally, and on various lists I often see people reply to message "digest ...." I filter and <plonk> those. The bulk of the messages is the same, there's just some variation in the volume of the headers. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list