On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
level of technical discussion that sometimes goes on there. Is it time
to split the list? About 2 years ago I proposed a separate list just for
people trying to install the system.
Yes!!
(In addition,
a master containing all messages would probobly be appreciated by
the thorough, the obsesive and the idle.)
ALSO: Making either the master or all subsets available as a digest
would REALLY help! I'm getting the firewall list this way.
It's very tidy.
(Perhaps those
I would not like to see the mailing list exchanged for a news group.
My news source is very slow and unreliable. I do not seem to get a
lot of the messages.
Split the mailing list, but do not get rid of it all together.
Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
This is a good idea. I would suggest:
debian-install
debian-user (instead of debian-technical)
debian-novice (instead of debian-nontechnical).
Derrick.
In your email to me, Bruce Perens, you wrote:
Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
level of technical discussion that sometimes goes on there. Is it time
to split the list? About 2 years ago I proposed a separate list just for
people trying to install the
On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
|Date: Thu, 5 Sep 96 13:58 PDT
|From: Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
|Subject: time to split the list?
|
|Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
|level of technical discussion that sometimes
At 01:58 PM 9/5/96 PDT, you wrote:
Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
level of technical discussion that sometimes goes on there. Is it time
to split the list? About 2 years ago I proposed a separate list just for
people trying to install the system. At the
Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
level of technical discussion that sometimes goes on there. Is it time
to split the list? About 2 years ago I proposed a separate list just for
people trying to install the system. At the time we did not have enough
On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
Is it time to split the list?
This isn't necessary. The number of messages per day is quite
reasonable. As long as discussions are related to Debian, I don't
think it inappropriate that they get tecnical.
Guy
On 06:20:26 Boris Yati Beletsky wrote:
On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
|I would propose:
|
| debian-install
| debian-nontechnical
| debian-technical
|
it's a very good idea , but i don't understand whats debian-nontechnical
would do?
Well, I don't like it. I've learned alot
Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
level of technical discussion that sometimes goes on there. Is it time
to split the list? About 2 years ago I proposed a separate list just for
people trying to install the system. At the time we did not have enough
Brian C. White wrote:
People love to complain about there being too much information, but they
overlook the fact that the reason they can get information and fast
responses is because there is so much going on there. If you split
the list, many people will not subscribe to some of them and thus
Ken == Ken Gaugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ken Maybe debian-user and debian-install, to keep it simple?
I second this.
--
Billy C.-M. Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux
Casper BodenCummins:
After reading your posts, I'm coming around to the view that two groups
- debian-user and debian-install - would be best. There is perhaps
insufficient non-technical discussion to warrant a separate list.
We already have the debian-talk list (send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
Some newbies tell me they find debian-user intimidating due to the high
level of technical discussion that sometimes goes on there. Is it time
to split the list? About 2 years ago I proposed a separate list just for
people trying to install the system.
On Sep 6, 8:31am, Thomas R Behrndt wrote:
Subject: Re: time to split the list?
: A very good idea. However, it might be a good idea to retain the name
: debian-user as well, particularly since there is now a news group of
: that name.
Seconded. I like the name debian-user better than debian
Casper made some good points regarding debian-install. Let's start
with debian-install and debian-user and see how it goes. I don't
like debian-*technical. At the moment, the line between debian-user
and a potential debian-devel is rather fuzzy in my mind and as such
both would carry
I'm only subscribed to lists which do not carry more than 10 mails/week.
This way my mailbox keeps mostly interesting stuff which I can oversee.
It is a _must_ to convert high-traffic lists into newsgroups because:
- one gets overwhelmed by the number of e-mails per day,
- the disk gets
A very good idea. However, it might be a good idea to retain the name
debian-user as well, particularly since there is now a news group of that
name.
I would propose:
debian-install
debian-nontechnical
debian-technical
--
Thomas R Behrndt
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