Re: Mailing list behaviour was: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-26 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Anand" == Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anand> I, personally, suspect that the unfriendliness of Debian is Anand> behind a lot of requests for smaller mailing lists seen by Anand> listmaster these days. A lot of people don't bother to use Anand> the main mailing l

Re: Mailing list behaviour was: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-26 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Anand" == Anand Kumria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anand> I, personally, suspect that the unfriendliness of Debian is Anand> behind a lot of requests for smaller mailing lists seen by Anand> listmaster these days. A lot of people don't bother to use Anand> the main mailing l

Re: Mailing list behaviour was: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Jonathan Walther wrote: > I prefer my fellow Debian brothers to develop rhinocerous hides. :-) Disregarding your smiley for a moment (I'm not sure what you want say with it anyway): I disagree. Rhino hides tend to come with Rhino horns, which people then get in the habit of using as an all-p

Re: Mailing list behaviour was: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Jonathan Walther wrote: > I prefer my fellow Debian brothers to develop rhinocerous hides. :-) Disregarding your smiley for a moment (I'm not sure what you want say with it anyway): I disagree. Rhino hides tend to come with Rhino horns, which people then get in the habit of using as an all-p

Re: Mailing list behaviour was: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-25 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:34:35PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: Converting people to daily-digest mode is something that both Pascal and I talked about recently. Considering the amount of acrimony various participants have had, seen recently on debian-vote, and the fact that some of the public (and

Re: Mailing list behaviour was: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-25 Thread Jonathan Walther
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:34:35PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: Converting people to daily-digest mode is something that both Pascal and I talked about recently. Considering the amount of acrimony various participants have had, seen recently on debian-vote, and the fact that some of the public (and p

Re: Mailing list behaviour was: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:34:35PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > Converting people to daily-digest mode is something that both Pascal and > I talked about recently. Considering the amount of acrimony various > participants have had, seen recently on debian-vote, and the fact that > some of the publi

Re: Mailing list behaviour was: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-25 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:34:35PM +1100, Anand Kumria wrote: > Converting people to daily-digest mode is something that both Pascal and > I talked about recently. Considering the amount of acrimony various > participants have had, seen recently on debian-vote, and the fact that > some of the publi

Re: Mailing list behaviour was: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-24 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 06:34, Anand Kumria wrote: > I, personally, suspect that the unfriendliness of Debian is behind > a lot of requests for smaller mailing lists seen by listmaster > these days. A lot of people don't bother to use the main mailing > lists anymore but instead find it simpler

Re: Mailing list behaviour was: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-24 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 24 March 2004 06:34, Anand Kumria wrote: > I, personally, suspect that the unfriendliness of Debian is behind > a lot of requests for smaller mailing lists seen by listmaster > these days. A lot of people don't bother to use the main mailing > lists anymore but instead find it simpler

Mailing list behaviour was: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-23 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:56:15AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > One of the things Bruce did (before my time, I think) was ban people from > the lists, or convert them to "daily digest mode" for not acting with > an appropriate amount of decorum. I can't imagine a DPL getting away > with trying

Mailing list behaviour was: Candidate questions/musings

2004-03-23 Thread Anand Kumria
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:56:15AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > One of the things Bruce did (before my time, I think) was ban people from > the lists, or convert them to "daily digest mode" for not acting with > an appropriate amount of decorum. I can't imagine a DPL getting away > with trying