At 12:14 09/12/2000 +0000, Gervase Markham wrote:
> > >In order to make this group keep traffic away from dev groups, it has to
> > >be very "catchy". m.users isn't.
> >
> > No argument, I thought it was mozilla.users.general and
> > mozilla.users.wishlist?
>
>It is.
>
> > Not really. The best policy is to be consistent, at the moment it
> > isn't. Some NS6 questions get answered, some don't, the difference between
> > them is puzzling. Either no NS6 get answered or they all do. Preferably,
> > none of them because this isn't the right forum for them.
>
>Indeed. Gerbil was doing great work on pointing people somewhere else, but
>the luser-generated stress seems to have got to him recently ;-)
Do you think http://www.objective2k.co.uk/goodmozillauser.htm is formed
enough for me to post a regular message to it? Because of my general
hatred of NNTP, I've never really looked into it, but is there the
possibility of having a warning message on subscribing to a newsgroup?
Certainly, the mailing list subscription confirmation should include
disclaimers about it not being a Netscape group and sending them off to
some other place.
>
>The thing is, people who answer NS6 questions think they are being
>"helpful", but they aren't, really. After all, "you can't give them what
>they want - it only encourages them" ;-)
>
> > Its still important though to empower the users, perhaps Beonex can host a
> > Bugzilla?
>
>Indeed. It should do. The changes to allow bug import and export from and
>to Bugzilla were made because distributors of Mozilla-based distributions
>could then host their own Bugzillas and move bugs back and forth as
>appropriate.
>
>We also need a "Derivatives/Beonex" component.
Absolutely.
Simon
>Gerv
