Re: We can halve volume by not allowing nondevelopers to post
On 1999-03-27 19:00, Oscar Levi wrote:
> On reading this thread, I find my sympathy lies with Ian. Volume is a
> big problem for me and lists. I recently enabled a mail sorter and
> started to use mutt. These things help, but I don't have time to wade
> through d-devel with adequate care. It's coming close to the volume
> of l-kernel but the content tends toward politics instead of technical
> issues.
I'm subscribed to a few high volume lists myself (jserv,
servlet-interest, linux-kernel, debian-devel, debian-user etc) and
have no problem keeping up. procmail ensures that I only receive the
stuff that _I_ want to see.
> I'd prefer to leave readership open to the public and posting limited
> to developers. Anyone unsunscribed who needs to post can send to the
> maintainer of the package in question, or a maintainer of a related
> package.
Let people vote with their feets by creating:
debian-devel-protected ; rw for debian insiders, ro for others
Developers that don't care for non-developer input can take their
discussions there. There's already a debian-devel-private, right?
Otherwise create:
debian-devel-private ; rw debian insiders
That'll be for those that don't care telling non-developers what's
going on.
(as a side note, hopefully a low subscription rate will indicate that
it's only a minority of the debian developers find end-users "stupid"
(from other thread) and not relevant for input (this thread)).
/Allan
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