Duncan wrote:
> Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>> To this user since 2003, who plans to install Gentoo in the new machine
>> which I am presently designing, this sounds like a very welcome
>> development. I shall continue to subscribe to -dev , but not to
>> -project. Should I also subscribe to -dev-announce or will its msgs be
>> duplicated on -dev ?
>
> You may in fact wish to subscribe to gentoo-project after all, as there
> are a lot of people (myself included) hoping the traffic on -dev goes
> down by at least 50%. I'm seriously hoping there'll be few non-dev posts
> to dev, as while IMO non-devs should be free to post to -dev, it should
> be development-technical only. I hope peer pressure forces that, with a
> simple reminder that -project gets everything else, for any violators.
>
> IOW, both your post and mine should now be going to -project (I expect to
> be subscribing shortly). Ideally, there'll be little reason for us to
> post to dev, tho I hope it remains such that we can. If it works,
> there'll be little reason to go further with that moderation proposal.
>
> So, unless you plan on being read-only on Gentoo discussions, I'd suggest
> you do subscribe to -project, and strongly consider posting much of what
> you've posted here in the past, there. That's what I'll be doing. If it
> fails to work that way by peer pressure, it's likely to end up almost
> forced that way, and I really hate to see that happen.
It looks like what Philip is also asking here is whether he should
subscribe to *both* -dev *and* -dev-announce. I am curious about this
as well. It depends on whether all messages to -dev-announce are
relayed to -dev automatically. If so, then the user would want to
subscribe to *one* of the lists, not both. If not, then users would
want to subscribe to both lists if they want all traffic. I suspect
"not" is the way it was set up, since clearly all posts to the new
-dev-announce will not be technical, and so they should not be relayed
to -dev automatically. Anyone know?
-Joe
P.S. Duncan, +1 on your comments about use of the lists!
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