As the original poster I asked here for two reasons. First and foremost I'm running Gentoo and want feedback on this issue from others who use Gentoo. Theoretically, mailers, X, sound, etc. should be the same for all distros but they aren't so we go to the lists of the distro we are running. Second, there's a lot of good knowledge on this list from people who know Gentoo and other distros as well.
To me, it's not a problem. As one poster said, I skip the ones I don't want but I read a lot of posts on topics I'm not interested at the moment in because when I'm done I've learned something about Gentoo and Linux. More than once, I've later encountered a problem I could fix because I remember a post on it so I went back to the archives and looked up the solution.
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Dave Nebinger wrote:
I'd imagine that 100% of the people on this list interact with email, which is a much better ratio than those that use X, setup a bootsplash, or want sound to work. I quitely delete those threads as being of no interest to me, but interesting and on topic for others on the list. I expect others to give my and a significant portion of the list's interests the same curtesy.
That's a problem that most mailing lists suffer from. For this list, some folks believe that if they're running a gentoo system, then the gentoo list is the place to post questions whether they're truly related to gentoo issues or not.
Nick is right that the mailserver thing is OT because it's not a specific gentoo issue. Some of the other issues you mentioned are typically more gentoo-related than the mailserver choice thing.
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