On Mon 07 Jul 2003 05:40, Buchan Milne posted as excerpted below: > This has been brought up before, but I wonder if it would be useful to > have focused cooker lists. ... > So, would it be worthwhile to have lists dedicated to: > -server software (apache/samba/ldap/postfix etc) > -KDE > -GNOME > -Other desktop software > -kernel > -admin tools (incl. drakxtools/drakx etc) > > Although a lot of people may end up subscribing to all the lists,
Probably add another for non-kernel non-admin-tool core, including networking and connectivity, installation, etc. What of cross-posting issues? What if something deals with a KDE network config/admin tool? It could then be posted to KDE, admin tools, and my suggested core group. If somebody was on all three, they'd get three copies, which would be a bit annoying.. I think this would be a good argument for making it a set of newsgroups, ported to mailing lists for those interested, rather than the current list, or proposed set of lists, ported to news for those that prefer. News has specific provisions for the above scenario, and there'd be only a single copy. Most news clients would track it as such, provided all groups were d/led together, so that there'd be only a single copy, and once it was read on one group, it would show read on all groups. (Said as one that prefers news and has been going to switch to getting the list in that format, but hasn't actually done so yet.. <g>) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
