On Fri, Oct 17, 2008, Spiro Harvey wrote: >> > Given the overall poor reception of the idea, I'd just put it on >> > the back burner for now... >> yes, thats sounding like a good idea for the time being. > >I don't think it is a good idea. I think that we need two separate >lists. One for general users, one for server sysadmins. > >What we don't know from all the people against splitting the >list is in what capacity they are using CentOS. Are they desktop users? >Are they running their own home network? Are they small-time sysadmins? >Are they managing a Tier 1 ISP? I am against splitting, and support a fairly large number of machines here, and at our customer sites. Our customers range from small businesses with fewer than a single Linux box and fewer than a dozen users to regional ISPs with thousands of clients. I subscribe to about 30 Mailman lists based on the number of monthly reminder notices sitting in my postmaster mail folder here, and we host a small number of Mailman lists as well. I answer more questions on lists like this than I ask, and have been doing similar e-mail and usenet stuff since the mid '80s when I was a co-moderator on several COMPUSERVE *nix related lists. FWIW, I have been supporting, integrating, and adminstering *nix systems for 26 years, and Linux systems since 1995 or so starting with Caldera, then SuSE, and now CentOS with a smattering of other Linux systems, FreeBSD, etc. just to make life interesting. As I said before, I scan the subjects of new threaded messages looking for things that look interesting, deleting far more than I read (hint to newbies -- make subjects meaninful, not just ``help''). Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved. -- R.A. Heinlein