Personally I'm in favor of the merge. And I agree the decision is really hard to be done by democracy as there is lower activity on traditional Chinese list, and we don't want to just move on and force them go away.
I guess making -gb and -big5 as read-only lists that convert debian-chinese@ mails to corresponding flavors is an interesting idea as someone already proposed. Just make it default to reply-to debian-chinese@, and recommend using UTF-8 encodings, and then people can just subscribe the converted lists. However, whenever a non-UTF-8 mail comes the convertion may fail, so the viability still require further discussion. But that gives a preliminary thought to solve the current divergence. Though both pros and cons exist, I hope it won't be critical obstacles. Regards, Deng Xiyue -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]