Re: We can halve volume by not allowing nondevelopers to post
On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 10:29:34AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> The rest is IMHO, as a non-developer:
>
> If a) is the main problem, there should be a way to highlight important
> posts (eg glibc 2.1 WILL be uploaded) from other posts (eg SHOULD glibc
debian-devel-announce would be appropriate for announcements like
"glibc 2.1 WILL be uploaded".
> c) this is a more serious issue, but before you propose to ban
> non-developers postings, please justify that us non-developers make
> postings that are not important to Debian... ie it looks like part of
Indeed. I have found your posts (such as this one) to be valuable
Brian, and I had no idea until this post that you were not a developer.
That does not change their value to me in any way. ie, I think it would
be a mistake to deny posting access to all non-developers.
Hamish
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