Spike Turner wrote: > Out of curiosity which major linux distro operates > a fragmented mailing list such as the one proposed? https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo http://lists.debian.org/completeindex.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/ https://ml.mandriva.net/wws/lists Compared to those CentOS really has few lists. > Recently Wikipedia migrated from Red Hat/Fedora to > Ubuntu? Why didn't they consider CentOS? I don't know - do you? > I think I've seen Dag Wieers and Johhny Hughes posting questions > on the Nahant-list, why not on this list or the Centos forum? Because they had Nahant questions or wanted to make Nahant users or developers aware of something? I think basically they chose the venue they thought to be correct for the question. > Such a fragmentation as that proposed is one guaranteed to > turn the CentOS mailing list along the lines of the CentOS forum. In favour for the forums (and that from me!): It's massively easier to filter out stuff in a mailing list than it is to do so in a forum. Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 194 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081016/b747036d/attachment-0005.sig>