Dealing with off-topic mail (was Re: The role of debian-private)

2010-06-28 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Piotr Ożarowski wrote: [Christoph Berg, 2010-06-09] Too few MUAs have a button for don't bother me about new mail in this (sub-)thread. I wish all off-topic mails were marked with OT tag in the subject, dovecot moves such mails (including the ones tagged with VAC) to a different

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:52:42PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Personally I like also that debian-private carries strong personal opinion (instead of public mailing list). I don't think I'm able to interpret the above properly. If that is to mean that on -private you don't need to be

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-10 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 03:46:13PM +, Clint Adams wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:52:42PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: I don't think traffic shoudl be keep at minimun, it is not a important list. We don't hide problem, so important things are send to d-d-a (which is the only

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-10 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:30:51PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: As wrote by Jonas, there is a risk of cabalization. Good discussion could also start from off-topic bad threads. I don't care if there's a cabal to discuss whether or not America, Hy-Brazil, Eurasia, and Scandinavia are

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:16:10PM +, Clint Adams wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:30:51PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: As wrote by Jonas, there is a risk of cabalization. Good discussion could also start from off-topic bad threads. I don't care if there's a cabal to discuss whether

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-10 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 10.06.2010 16:16, Clint Adams wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:30:51PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: As wrote by Jonas, there is a risk of cabalization. Good discussion could also start from off-topic bad threads. I don't care if there's a cabal to discuss whether or not America,

The role of debian-private

2010-06-09 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, there is a discussion in debian-private about the role of debian-private. There is nothing private in that discussion, so I'm following it up here. So, some people are advocating in favour of a private mailing list for DD chatter. The fact that that idea is being very vocally pushed

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-09 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
On 09.06.2010 16:08, Enrico Zini wrote: Hello, there is a discussion in debian-private about the role of debian-private. There is nothing private in that discussion, so I'm following it up here. So, some people are advocating in favour of a private mailing list for DD chatter. The fact

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-09 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:52:42PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: I don't think traffic shoudl be keep at minimun, it is not a important list. We don't hide problem, so important things are send to d-d-a (which is the only required list for DD). Why would we not be better served if the

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 03:46:13PM +, Clint Adams wrote: On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 04:52:42PM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: I don't think traffic shoudl be keep at minimun, it is not a important list. We don't hide problem, so important things are send to d-d-a (which is the only

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-09 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Enrico Zini 2010-06-09 20100609140853.ga3...@enricozini.org So, some people are advocating in favour of a private mailing list for DD chatter. The fact that that idea is being very vocally pushed by no less than two people prompts me to double check some fundamental facts about the Debian

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-09 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Christoph Berg, 2010-06-09] Too few MUAs have a button for don't bother me about new mail in this (sub-)thread. I wish all off-topic mails were marked with OT tag in the subject, dovecot moves such mails (including the ones tagged with VAC) to a different mailbox for me. How about at least

Re: The role of debian-private

2010-06-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: [Christoph Berg, 2010-06-09] Too few MUAs have a button for don't bother me about new mail in this (sub-)thread. I wish all off-topic mails were marked with OT tag in the subject, dovecot moves such mails (including the ones tagged with VAC) to