Tim Beauregard wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I recently re-subscribed having been off for about four years. The > changes I have noticed are: > > 1. Much less traffic. I previously got 250+ posts per day. Now 50-100. > Could this be due to the development of ubuntu?
May be. But I also think it is because the quality of Debian packages, packaging process (having Sid, testing, stable, experimental, backports), bug reporting process have improved a lot in recent years. As a result, a user of Debian does not need to constantly write emails to d-u for support. > 5. Less newbie posts. Ubuntu? I think so. But I am also glad that it is that way. > 7. Less spam. Totally with you on that. The mailing list managers deserve kudos for doing such a great job. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org