On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:51:44AM -0800, Hereon wrote: > Request For Comment on: > Enhancing the Debian mailing lists by: > Creating debian-user-woody and debian-user-sarge mailing lists, > and deactivating debian-user.
Bad idea. It's generally wrong to assume that more email lists will result in better coverage. The more people subscribed to the debian-user list, the more people there are to answer questions. If you split the list, you're not guaranteed that you'll have an even distribution of email across the new lists. Because newbies don't give enough details in their emails to debian-user is not a problem with too many subscribers, it's a problem of information dissemination. They aren't paying attention to the "welcome" message or the info on lists.debian.org. By adding more lists, it will be confusing to users which one they should subscribe to. There is already confusion around the idea of "Which flavor of Debian to you use?" Why perpetuate this by making newbies try to discern which email list they should belong to. "Join debian-user," is simple, concise, and understandable. Finding information on the list is subject to a good indexing application. Some MUA's are very good with searching. You have the mbox for each email list Debian hosts. Download the mbox, import it into your client, and search. -- Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */
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