On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Richard A. Hecker wrote: >> >On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:19:29AM -0800, Tim Roberts wrote: >> >>After coming in to find 170-odd messages from the new [Devel] list in my >> >>inbox, I decided to switch to digest mode. However, mailman tells me that >> >>"the list administrator has disabled digest delivery for this list". Any >> >>particular reason why this is so? >> >> >> >Devel never has had a digest, so this should not be considered abnormal. >> >> I did not mean to imply that this was a recent change. However, given the fact >> that Mailman does digesting at essentially no cost, it seems both unusual and >> unfriendly to disable it, unless there is some reasonable justification. >> That's what I wanted to understand. >> > >With devel open to the public now, it might start to get more support type >messages. If the message traffic increases, I would like a digest option. It is >easier to delete a single digest message when those 'overload' times come ;-)
Support requests and messages should go to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list instead IMHO, although I don't know what the official policy is. I believe if an issue contains sufficient detail as to the specific cause of the problem, perhaps with patch or similar developmental related content though, or if someone is debugging a problem and trying to fix it themselves, that it would be welcome here. Of course that is just my own personal opinion and interpretation of the list. The list maintainer would be the one to provide authoritative information on what is considered valid ontopic posting though. It might even say on the GNU mailman webpages, haven't checked. While it is a very greedy thought of me, I actually prefer mailing lists that do not offer a digest option. It prevents people from subscribing to the digest, then hitting reply, fully quoting the entire digest, and then adding "me too" or other similar stupidity. Perhaps that might even be the reason that digests are disabled on this list, who knows. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
