On Mon, 14 May 2001 23:33:48 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
>On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:00:02PM -0700, Aaron Blosser wrote:
>>I fear that many folks may not be aware of the list, or find
>>that subscribing seems too hard (odd as that may sound to us experts :)
>
>Or perhaps being set back by the description of an "in-depth discussion
>about Mersenne primes"... ;-) When people start throwing the maths
>around, I feel like I should take more maths soon :-P
I'd tend to agree - the list is, at times, too in-depth for my
understanding, though it's lead me to do a fair amount of research on
my own. There are still discussions about CPU architecture, as well
as off-topic discussions about systems adminstration, that I don't
pretend to follow, but I've found that I've learned a lot reading
through those discussions.
As for a 'users' mailing list, I don't feel that that's necessary; if
'ordinary users' want to get on the list, they can simply read only
those threads that they understand and are interested in. The list
isn't so high-volume as to make that in any way prohibitive.
Nathan
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