<[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/

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