Maybe you should read your own web-page:
3) If you are quite new to this whole Linux/UNIX(TM) thing, you can
report bugs by submitting them to MandrakeExpert -- just cite 'Mandrake
Linux 9.0 beta1' as the product version.

By the way, I have been unable to subscribe to the cooker list:
the server does not react by returning an email.

 -- Bjarne Thomsen

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 00:16, Vincent Danen wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 14:24, s wrote:
> 
> > > Can all of the messages regarding 9.0, cooker, the release
> > > candidate, or any of the betas please be posted to the cooker
> > > mailing list?
> > >
> > > This really is not an appropriate forum for those messages and,
> > > chances are, the developers may not even see them.
> > >
> > > The expert list is for Mandrake support on currently released
> > > products, not "in-progress" products.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > 
> > I have to disagree since many like to run these versions and may need 
> > pointers here or there, but can not congest the cooker list which as 
> > I understand it is primarily for the developers and the testers who 
> > can provide real assistance to said developers.  I can imagine if 
> > this was to happen as you wish, the cooker list might become off 
> > limits to the general public.
> > 
> > Just my thoughts.
> 
> Then get a bugzilla account.
> 
> Posting cooker-related mails on expert is counter-productive.  Doing so,
> you expect the developers to subscribe to both lists when they should
> only really be required to read one.  Developers do not always have time
> to provide general tech-support, which is what the expert list is for.
> 
> I suppose you would rather have developers spend time reading than
> working on new apps or fixing bugs?  Because that is what would happen. 
> Even sending a message to cooker (without subscribing) indicating the
> bug and that you are not subscribed so cc in the reply is better than
> congesting the expert list with unrelated messages.
> 
> The other alternative, which is probably happening right now, is that
> bug reports on cooker sent to the expert list are not being noted at
> all.  So the reporter ends up wasting their own time by posting to
> expert and not cooker and for no gain.
> 
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