On Sun, Jan 30, 2000, Ira Abramov wrote about "Re: [iglu] Double posting to iglu and
linux-il?":
> the only double-post in the last 3-4 days was the above question. IGLU
> is defining itself as it goes along. Hopefully it is becoming the home
> for the LUG activities, activism, active support and newbie (active)
> help. linux-il will stay linux-il: the too-generally named list for
> professional Linux power-users, sysadmins and programmers, discussing
> the least trivial questions without the pro/newbie ratio it "sufferes"
> from today.
>
> This is how I offered it several times in the last week on the list and
> so far won the agreemant of the audiance by recieving no objections at
> all (nor agreeing voices either, mind you...)
Did you think that maybe most people didn't even bother to send you their
objections? How many people are on linux-il - 500? (I'm just guessing - it
would be nice to get an official figure!) How many people wanted a new
mailing list - 5?
I think that a new mailing list will only cause more confusion, *much*
double posting, and having to read both, which is why I don't like the idea.
That is unless they have *really* different agenda - but in that case you're
running a big risk that most people will read only one: if you have a mailing
list with only Linux-activisim, who would want to read it? if you have a
mailing list specifically for newbies it's nice - but don't expect experienced
people to join it.
> This is IGLU and that's what we hope to make it. Anyone asking about
> basic kernel compile woes, tcpd and qpopper questions, wu-ftpd config
> and ipppd, go to IGLU. If you have questions about programming sockets
> in perl, flying pigs' kernel drivers and hacking on Fribidi GtK widgets,
> linux-il is the place to roam.
I'm sorry - I didn't understand the difference at all (qpopper=IGLU, perl=
LINUX-IL?), and I'm sure many people won't either - causing a high
number of crossposts (or worse: some threads will appear only on one
of the mailing lists).
> We hope thus to help everyone, and help maintain the flow of mail. I
> don't know about others here, but some of us don't read mail on saturday
> (religious reasons, a very romantic weekend with the SO in the snow, or
> just hate checking the work Email account on weekends), and opening the
> linux-il folder on sunday to find ~40 messages waiting is kinda
> frustrating :-)
There are only 2 ways to fix that, as I said previously: 1. procmail,
2. making a newsgroup. When you have procmail, and have a seperate linux-il
folder, I couldn't care less if there were 200 messages in linux-il. It's
not like the world is going to end if I don't read them all - I just skim
through them looking for interesting threads!
Splitting the group won't do any good in that respect - someone who wants
to read both will still get all these messages, and even more, and now will
have to skim through duplicate messages :)
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