Shlomi Fish
Sun, 05 Aug 2001 04:23:24 -0700
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, mulix wrote:
> 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.
>
My problem is that when reading lin-club I also enjoy reading the general
Linux Q&A, the various discussions, and the other stuff besides the
announcements and the R2L discussion. I don't mind having a separate
mailing-list for announcements, but I don't see much point to it if only
the projects will be moved to their own mailing-list.
If the projects stay on the same mailing-list (even if the announecements
are on a separate one), then it will continue making reading lin-club less
enjoyable, at least for me.
> 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.
I don't think the projects are the "core reason for the club's being". The
way I see it, the club exists because people happen to like Linux and the
various software associated with it, and enjoy giving and attending
lectures about it, and (but not only) enjoy conducting projects that
relate to it.
Do you imply that if the club did not produce a single line of source
code, it would have had no right to exist?
Back to our subject: the reason I suggested the split is to increase the
signal-to-noise ratio of the mailing-list for those who are not interested
in disucssing the minute details of the projects we take. I do not imply
by this, that the projects are any less part of the club's activity.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> --
> mulix
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>
> linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead
>
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