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 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
