On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 08:10:06PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > I have recently been wondering if it would be possible to come up with > some way of splitting -legal up in order to make it more approachable > for outsiders. Unfortunately it seems that -legal is prone to enormous > threads that often appear either obscure or unproductive (normally flamy) > and these threads can easily swamp the rest of the traffic. I know that > when the bigger threads blow up I often end up opening my -legal mailbox, > glancing at the list of messages and immediately deciding that it's not > worth my time to read it. This experience is extremely off putting and > means that I can sympathise with what Jeorg is saying. > > I can't actually think of a way to do this off the top of my head (I'd > say that normally people don't actively try to start these large > discussions) and it would require enforcement by the active members of > the list.
Maybe a debian-legal-announce list that only accept signed email from DD with Reply-To set to debian-legal and forwarded to debian-legal ? That would allow to mark some posts as important and easy to find and would not block discussion on debian-legal. Some discussions on debian-legal are not productive for the case at hand, but can be productive in the grand scheme of things. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
