mulix
Sun, 05 Aug 2001 02:34:51 -0700
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: > It is easy to realize that the discussions that concern the R2L project > span a lot of E-mails and tend to crowd the Haifux' mailbox. The problem > is that they disturb the regular flow of messages of this mailing list > that concern (chiefly) lectures, Linux Q&A, announcements, etc. > > Therefore, I suggest opening a lin-club-projects mailing list here at vipe > that will host discussions that pertain to the projects we conduct. While > announcements on sessions which we will hold regarding these projects > should be posted to the vanilla lin-club mailing-list, general discussion > should be moved to l-c-p. > > A good idea, would be to post final conclusions of those > discussions to the main mailing list. (or to l-c-p with a special markup) > > Do everybody else think it is a good idea? i would suggest a different course of action: leave lin-club as it is, free flowing and free form, and open a new mailing list, lin-club-announce. lin-club-announce will be very low traffic, for lecture announcements and other 'need to know' stuff. it can even be moderated, if orr (or anyone else?) would like to moderate it. the reason i prefer this distinction is that i view the projects (and other programming/linux stuff not directly related to the club's activities) as the core reason for the club's being, not an auxiliary part of it. -- mulix http://www.advogato.com/person/mulix linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead