martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> [2005.03.11.0158 +0100]: >> There's a trivial way: moderate the lists. I think there are less >> fascist ways that'll be both effective and more efficient. But >> there's no point kidding ourselves that it'll be easy or that >> everyone'll be happy with the change. > > Let's try it. Let's create debian-devel-moderated and > debian-user-moderated and see what happens. I volunteer to be (one > of the) moderator(s).
Maybe trying is in fact the only way to know. When the german newsgroup de.comp.os.unix.linux.moderated was founded, I also preferred it over the unmoderated alternative, and I got better answers there. However, after a while the group nearly died - obviously posters preferred the faster (and, at least at the beginning, often wrong...) responses in the unmoderated group. But it might well be different, and we begin to estimate the quality of the moderated list. However, we should be careful not to make the problem worse instead of better: We don't gain much if anybody who wants to be informed then would have to follow -devel *and* -devel-moderated, -project *and* -project-moderated, and so on. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
