<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 Jul 2003, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > It's just a matter of categorizing discussions. I happen to not > > follow closely KDE discussions for example. > > > > If people can't categorize (with the subject) in cooker ML, I > > don't think they will be able to select the right mailing-list to > > post to. > > > It is more than only categorizing. Current problems as I see it: > > -some people do not have the bandwith to download 90% uninteresting > messages
??? I think this is relevent for 0.1% of ppl out there. > -cooker is too much a discussion club instead of a technical list. If you > post a patch, people are first going to debate whether it is wortwhile of > actually trying it. Debating on the patch is a *good* thing IMHO. After all, we want to build a community distro, not only ours. > And the maintainer in question doesn't reply. I hope Mdk maintainer not answering on this mailing-list is another problem, which won't be solved by splitting the ml, for sure. > this would be improved with more categorized lists. Well hoping is not enough. I hope so too, but I think this has absolutely zero chance to happen. > Such a list would also be more useful for testing, since you'd expect that > if you are on a KDE list, you are not to lazy to quickly rebuild and test > a specific patch for KDE. > > I would even go so far as to propose the list being not freely accessible. Humbly against that (non free access is frightening by itself). > So you can be removed if you are just there to talk about the fact that > latest kernel really, really panics, also on your machine. Uneffective, IMHO. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
