Gervase Markham wrote:
>> 9. I'd really like a mozilla.users group.
>
> Just one?
I object that.
mozilla.org policy has always been "developers only". That's why I
created Beonex, and bought a users mailing list. We need to stick to one
policy - either Mozilla is for users, and we adjust the website and the
binaries etc. accordingly, or it isn't, and then, the hierarchy is wrong
here. Having no clear policy only leads to confusion and problems.
One concrete example: I think that this one group won't attract the
right traffic (completely uninteresting user problems like "How do
I...?"). Having read the .mail-news group long time, I guess that people
just search for "mail" and pick the best-looking group. Since there is
no netscape.communicator.mail-news, they post to n.p.mozilla.mail-news.
Exactly the same will happen, if there is only "users". Since we now
have "m.dev.apps.browser", we will even have the same problem in that
group, too. So, either you create m.users.mail-news, m.users.browser
etc. from the beginning (which would have the problem of suggesting that
Mozilla is for users), or don't even start with m.users.
