On 8/15/07, Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison at sun.com> wrote: > Artem Kachitchkine wrote: > > > I think it's a bit too late, just go with the flow and leave -discuss > > alone. Lobbies are always crowded and noisy, and those arriving in Hotel > > Solaris need to feel welcome in order to want to say. Who cares what > > version of Solaris they happened to try first, give them a chance to > > figure stuff out. Gently directing questions to -help or another more > > appropriate list should be preferred, but if someone decides to answer a > > questions here and now, I don't see why not. > > I disagree, I suspect many people have unsubscribed because of the > unacceptable S/N ratio, and as a result we no longer have any good way > to reach those people.
I feel that even if we came to a consensus on this, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to enforce. What about a low traffic opensolaris-announce mailing list, as an alternative for those times when you need to get a hold of the entire OSOL community? (There is a strong precedence for this in the Open Source community.) Cheers, Brian Gupta
