On Mon, Aug 16, 2004, Shlomi Fish wrote about "[Meta] Smart People "Leaving" Linux-IL": > I noticed a trend when talking to some people face to face, and that is that > many of them (and I'm referring to smart, expert, even full-fledged hacker > people) stop reading the Linux-IL mailing list after a while. Their reasons > vary. Some of the things I heard: > > 1. Linux-IL is the core of too many flame-wars.
So you decided to start a new one? :) > 2. Linux-IL has a low signal-to-noise ratio. What about the less judgemental and simpler 3. Linux-il has a high volume, with a high number of postings on a very wide range of topics. When I started the ivrix-discuss list, almost 5 years ago, I noticed the same problem. Linux-il was an extremely busy list (even then), and most of its discussions didn't interest me. I was not (at the time) interested or could not find the time for "social" or "philosophical" discussion, or discussions on how to run various programs on Linux on how to configure various modems and video cards. I wanted only to discuss Hebrew on Linux, and I thought that many other people will want to do the same, which is why I created the ivrix-discuss list. Today the number of Hebrew-related posts on linux-il itself has grown, but it remains a small minority of the posts. This is why I still consider ivrix-discuss a valuable splinter list. > 4. linux-il-wars - discussing Windows vs. Unix, Linux vs. BSD, vi vs. Emcas, > PostgreSQL vs. MySQL vs. Firebird vs. MaxDB, Perl vs. Python vs. Ruby vs. Tcl > vs. PHP, Scheme/LISP vs. Perl/Python/Ruby, Java vs. .NET, etc. etc. This suggestion makes sense just like the "evil bit" April-fools RFC :) Why would somebody who posts a flame want to send it to a "wars" mailing list? -- Nadav Har'El | Monday, Aug 16 2004, 29 Av 5764 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |"Arguing with nyh just doesn't pay off." http://nadav.harel.org.il |-- Muli Ben-Yehuda, Linux-il list ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
