On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:57:48PM -0700, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Shanon Loveridge wrote:
> >
> >On 9/8/05, *Jim Grisanzio* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> >
> >    In general, as traffic increases on discuss -- no matter what the issue
> >    happens to be -- people comment to me that they can't keep up, they
> >    want to unsubscribe, and that the list is not focused. So, I'm not 
> >    sure what
> >    to make of it. One person's conversation is another's noise, I suppose.
> >
> > 
> >I ended up unsubscribing from this list due to the above reasons and 
> >just subscribed to lists covering the areas I am interested in. However, 
> >I found that the other lists are largely unused and discussions that 
> >should be taking place on those list are taking place here, so I 
> >resubscribed.
> 
> >Can threads on a topic covered by another list in the OpenSolaris 
> >community please be started / moved to the related list.
> 
> 
> This is a common story but it can be used to argue two ways -- (1) that 
> we should distribute the conversation more to better follow the 
> technical issues, and (2) that the community is naturally migrating to 
> discuss (probably for simplicity) and in the process is making the list 
> unusable for a majority of people while leaving other lists unused so we 
> need to fix discuss. And around we go. I have no answer and am open to 
> suggestions.

Alternatively, the real problem is people lacking quality email clients with
threading and email triaging, and other huge-volume list tools, adequate
bandwidth and disk space :)

Friendly,

Sven Luther

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