Re: New support lists?

2008-07-30 Thread Simon Slater

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 21:42 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
 On the new lists issue, I do not agree that new lists are necessary.
 Eventually those long threads will appear and it will be difficult not
 to to see them.  There were the KDE4 ones, not too long ago.
 Eventually things got settled :)  This is nature of the list.  We have
 to be prepared for everything.  I will also repeat one thing that does
 justice to the list members.  Many are very nice and helpful people
 that give proper advice and are very knowledgeable in Fedora and other
 Linuxes with GNU also included.  It is a priviledge to learn from many
 great people :) 
 
 Regards,
 
 Antonio 
 
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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread Ric Moore
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 23:16 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Not really.  This list worked great until Alexandre hijacked it.  He
 needs to be booted for persisting in spewing all that OT shit into our
 mailboxes after being asked repeatedly to stop.
 
 I used to be ambivalent about the Free Software folks vs. the Open
 Source folks.  I'd like to congratulate Alexandre for fucking that
 ambivalence.  I now understand why the Free Software folks get
 laughed at so hard, so often.
 
 And my opinion of Red Hat is shit now, since they have a
 representative like Alexandre fronting for them.

Here's a quote from the new CEO of RedHat, Jim Whitehurst:

Red Hat appealed to me. Red Hat is different. By doing well as a company
at Red Hat, we are doing good. Open source is a way to focus on the
customer, letting us grow, succeed, and change the technology
landscape...all while doing something that is fundamentally good.
Fighting for open standards and open formats. These things will change
society. I'm thrilled to be here.

See the words Open Source? There's still hope. :) Ric

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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 14:15 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
 Reading the last couple emails from another thread on maybe new list
 or two, and to segregate the content to them was brought up and have
 couple new list names that might help make sense or to get the ball
 rolling?

Start a new list for something different, don't re-purpose an existing
list.  i.e. Keep fedora-list as it always was (a general user support
list), and create some other chit-chat / advocacy lists for those who
want to continue an off-topic chat.

Though, having said that.  There's already plenty of other places that
people can have their off-topics and rampant advocacy evangelising.
Some of them have their very own websites.  They could all piss off,
over there, right now.  But they won't, because they won't to romp in
and change everyone else's opinion to their own.

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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
 And my opinion of Red Hat is shit now, since they have a
 representative like Alexandre fronting for them.

Red Hat doesn't. Alexandra just persists in abusing his redhat.com
address to advertise his own BLAG distribution in the wrong place.

He has been asked not to do that, and I imagine stronger persuasion to
take up such things using his personal email elsewhere will occur if he
doesn't.

Alan

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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
 I used to be ambivalent about the Free Software folks vs. the Open
 Source folks.  I'd like to congratulate Alexandre for fucking that
 ambivalence.  I now understand why the Free Software folks get
 laughed at so hard, so often.

I'll make one other comment here. Most 'Free Software' people I know (and
I count myself as one) share your view of GNU/Alexandre and wish quite
frankly he was a microsoft fanboy instead as he'd do more good for Free
and Open Source software that way.

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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 00:21:22 Ed Greshko wrote:
 Anne Wilson wrote:
  On Monday 28 July 2008 23:08:15 Aaron Konstam wrote:
  On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 22:04 +0200, Anders Karlsson wrote:
  * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080728 21:48]:
  On Monday 28 July 2008 20:15:54 Mike Chambers wrote:
 
  [snip]
 
  Would this help make things better?
 
  In theory, yes.  In practice, not unless there is moderator support
  for making sure that non-support threads go to the relevant list.
 
  I'm sure we could manage that. :)
 
  /Anders
 
  I don't think we could handle that. This split is a really bad idea.
 
  For some of us it is an excellent idea

 Yes it is an excellent idea.  But, sadly, it probably won't work since it
 relies on reasonable humans to understand and be willing and able to
 separate their posts among the newly created lists.

Or a moderator willing to kick off anyone who refuses to comply

Anne




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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread g

Mike Chambers wrote:

Hi all,

Reading the last couple emails from another thread on maybe new list or
two, and to segregate the content to them was brought up and have couple
new list names that might help make sense or to get the ball rolling?


i really do not see any advantage in changing way list are now.

what would be nice is to run a converter that will change all
'text/html' and 'base 64' emails to 'text/plain'.

give consideration to subscribers who are on pots and limited disk
storage.


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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 07:18:26 am Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Tuesday 29 July 2008 00:21:22 Ed Greshko wrote:

 snip

  Yes it is an excellent idea.  But, sadly, it probably won't work since it
  relies on reasonable humans to understand and be willing and able to
  separate their posts among the newly created lists.

 Or a moderator willing to kick off anyone who refuses to comply

 Anne

Given the events of the past 17 days, I'd think that a proctologist would be a 
better choice.

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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread William Case
Hi Anne et al;

2ยข

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 12:18 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Tuesday 29 July 2008 00:21:22 Ed Greshko wrote:
  Anne Wilson wrote:
   On Monday 28 July 2008 23:08:15 Aaron Konstam wrote:
   On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 22:04 +0200, Anders Karlsson wrote:
   * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080728 21:48]:
   On Monday 28 July 2008 20:15:54 Mike Chambers wrote:
  
   [snip]
  
   Would this help make things better?
  
   In theory, yes.  In practice, not unless there is moderator support
   for making sure that non-support threads go to the relevant list.
  
   I'm sure we could manage that. :)
  
   /Anders
  
   I don't think we could handle that. This split is a really bad idea.
  
   For some of us it is an excellent idea
 
  Yes it is an excellent idea.  But, sadly, it probably won't work since it
  relies on reasonable humans to understand and be willing and able to
  separate their posts among the newly created lists.
 
 Or a moderator willing to kick off anyone who refuses to comply
 
 Anne

I, for one, would miss the occasional Off Topic thread.  I have had my
interest peaked and had late night working re-invigorated by this list's
incidental forays into language usage, international discussions on how
things are done elsewhere, teasing, and even the odd frustrated rant.  I
believe that kind of communications builds a bit of a community that one
can count on when one is really in need of OS or Computer help.  I know
I have come to recognize and respect a good many names on this list.

For what it is worth, I have noticed that the OT increases
proportionally from the time when the latest version of Fedora has been
released.  Perhaps that reflects the decline in the number of real
problems which need to be fixed and leaves members free to let their
minds wander.

Our local LUG had a problem with our mailing list being turned into an
anti-social set of diatribes by a couple of members who were no more
than trolls.  In order to avoid them, we set up a second moderated list
for 'tech' subjects only.  We ended up with long debates over the
whether a question belonged on the 'social' list or the 'tech' list.
Slowly everyone drifted away from both; with only a few remaining
members using the LUG IRC.

I don't know what the answer for the current pointless thread(s) is
other than to ignore them for the time being, complain a bit, and hope
that other members will stop feeding the troll.

But, my experience says setting up an additional mailing list doesn't
really solve much and can be harmful to a nice little community of
interests.

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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 15:11:38 William Case wrote:
 I, for one, would miss the occasional Off Topic thread.

So would I.  In the days when most of the topics were serious they were a 
light relief.  It's not the OT that bothers me, it's the fact that it is now 
way out of proportion

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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 14:09:59 Carroll Grigsby wrote:
 On Tuesday 29 July 2008 07:18:26 am Anne Wilson wrote:
  On Tuesday 29 July 2008 00:21:22 Ed Greshko wrote:
  snip
 
   Yes it is an excellent idea.  But, sadly, it probably won't work since
   it relies on reasonable humans to understand and be willing and able to
   separate their posts among the newly created lists.
 
  Or a moderator willing to kick off anyone who refuses to comply
 
  Anne

 Given the events of the past 17 days, I'd think that a proctologist would
 be a better choice.

Needed the dictionary, but yeh!  I think you're right :-)

Anne


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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread Jeff Moe
Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk writes:

 
  And my opinion of Red Hat is shit now, since they have a
  representative like Alexandre fronting for them.
 
 Red Hat doesn't. Alexandra just persists in abusing his redhat.com
 address to advertise his own BLAG distribution in the wrong place.

woah woah woah woah woah.

BLAG is using Alexandre's kernels, but BLAG is certainly *not* his own distro.
In fact, I don't even consider him a BLAG developer and neither does he. BLAG
used fedora's and before that Red Hat, Inc. kernel's but that didn't make Dave
Jones a BLAG developer either. We use packages from a wide variety of sources.

BLAG has been building based on Red Hat Inc.'s Red Hat since 7.3.  We have only
been using Alexandre's kernels a few months, which is when I first came in
contact with him.

I don't even think alexandre is using BLAG for that matter, just Fedora with his
kernels and then cleans out non-free packages.

Please get your facts straight.

-Jeff

P.S. I try to stay out of these threads, but when someone brings up something
completely false about BLAG, I feel I have to correct it, especially when it's
someone like Alan Cox.

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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
 P.S. I try to stay out of these threads, but when someone brings up something
 completely false about BLAG, I feel I have to correct it, especially when it's
 someone like Alan Cox.

Thanks for the correction and I understand why you want to correct that
promptly.

Alan

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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread Gordon Messmer

Alan Cox wrote:


I'll make one other comment here. Most 'Free Software' people I know (and
I count myself as one) share your view of GNU/Alexandre and wish quite
frankly he was a microsoft fanboy instead as he'd do more good for Free
and Open Source software that way.


The majority of this very long thread has, I think, bee focused on 
correcting misinformation about the GPL.  I don't see how letting FUD 
spread about that license, or any other Free Software license, is going 
to do any good for anyone.


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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
 The majority of this very long thread has, I think, bee
 focused on 
 correcting misinformation about the GPL.  I don't see
 how letting FUD 
 spread about that license, or any other Free Software
 license, is going 
 to do any good for anyone.
 
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IANAL, even the ones that are can tell that the licensing is a very complicated 
issue.  I have been in those discussions because I have questions myself.  In 
many ways it is an excellent license, but it does have certain clauses that in 
certain situations, you must comply with it or you can get into trouble.  This 
has happened to companies who have abused the system and to individuals for not 
complying in some way.  
The wording is complicated, certain clauses about you can do this, but if you 
do ..., then you must .  Everything matters and is important.

 On the same token, I have argued back and forth and acknowledge that I 
misbehaved in some ways.  I ask for clemency and hope that all is forgiven :)  

On the new lists issue, I do not agree that new lists are necessary.  
Eventually those long threads will appear and it will be difficult not to to 
see them.  There were the KDE4 ones, not too long ago.  Eventually things got 
settled :)  This is nature of the list.  We have to be prepared for everything. 
 I will also repeat one thing that does justice to the list members.  Many are 
very nice and helpful people that give proper advice and are very knowledgeable 
in Fedora and other Linuxes with GNU also included.  It is a priviledge to 
learn from many great people :) 

Regards,

Antonio 


  

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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 28 July 2008 20:22:42 Antonio Olivares wrote:
 Just look at the big thread :)

Do we have to?

Anne


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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-28 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Mike Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080728 21:16]:
 Hi all,
 
 Reading the last couple emails from another thread on maybe new list or
 two, and to segregate the content to them was brought up and have couple
 new list names that might help make sense or to get the ball rolling?
 
 fedora-list(this one) - General Fedora talk, opinions, suggestions,
 comments, distro wars, all that type stuff not support related.
 
 fedora-user-list or fedora-support-list - Bug references, problems with
 software, computer won't boot, email don't work, firefox plugins not
 working, etc.. where problems are asked about and responded to on
 *official releases*.

+1 , but you knew that I'd say that anyway.

A list dedicated to support would make a lot of sense, keeping it
factual and dedicated to the support topic and purpose.

Already seen that there is opposition to this idea, citing too many
lists, but I don't see that. Volume of traffic across the lists
should be about the same for those that would want both. It would
allow those interested in actually helping people to focus on just
that, and those interested in advocacy or more generic talk to focus
on that.

It is a logical split.

 fedora-testers-list - as is, for testing alpha, beta, preview, rc
 releases when preparing a new release.
 
 fedora-devel-list - as is, for development of fedora, and the rest that
 is currently used on that list.
 
 See the url below for currently created lists already being used..
 
 https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/
 
 Would this help make things better?

IMHO, yes.

/Anders

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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-28 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080728 21:48]:
 On Monday 28 July 2008 20:15:54 Mike Chambers wrote:
[snip]
  Would this help make things better?
 
 In theory, yes.  In practice, not unless there is moderator support for 
 making 
 sure that non-support threads go to the relevant list.

I'm sure we could manage that. :)

/Anders

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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-28 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 14:15 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 Reading the last couple emails from another thread on maybe new list or
 two, and to segregate the content to them was brought up and have couple
 new list names that might help make sense or to get the ball rolling?
 
 fedora-list(this one) - General Fedora talk, opinions, suggestions,
 comments, distro wars, all that type stuff not support related.
 
 fedora-user-list or fedora-support-list - Bug references, problems with
 software, computer won't boot, email don't work, firefox plugins not
 working, etc.. where problems are asked about and responded to on
 *official releases*.
 
 fedora-testers-list - as is, for testing alpha, beta, preview, rc
 releases when preparing a new release.
 
 fedora-devel-list - as is, for development of fedora, and the rest that
 is currently used on that list.
 
 See the url below for currently created lists already being used..
 
 https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/
 
 Would this help make things better?
 
No but it explains why this list has become more useless, in that my
questions are not answered. The redhat/fedora discussion has existed on
a single list for ove a decade and a half. Why does it need to be broken
up now?
I am just frustrated.
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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-28 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 22:04 +0200, Anders Karlsson wrote:
 * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080728 21:48]:
  On Monday 28 July 2008 20:15:54 Mike Chambers wrote:
 [snip]
   Would this help make things better?
  
  In theory, yes.  In practice, not unless there is moderator support for 
  making 
  sure that non-support threads go to the relevant list.
 
 I'm sure we could manage that. :)
 
 /Anders
 
I don't think we could handle that. This split is a really bad idea.
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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-28 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 14:15 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 Reading the last couple emails from another thread on maybe new list or
 two, and to segregate the content to them was brought up and have couple
 new list names that might help make sense or to get the ball rolling?
 
 fedora-list(this one) - General Fedora talk, opinions, suggestions,
 comments, distro wars, all that type stuff not support related.
 
 fedora-user-list or fedora-support-list - Bug references, problems with
 software, computer won't boot, email don't work, firefox plugins not
 working, etc.. where problems are asked about and responded to on
 *official releases*.
 
 fedora-testers-list - as is, for testing alpha, beta, preview, rc
 releases when preparing a new release.
 
 fedora-devel-list - as is, for development of fedora, and the rest that
 is currently used on that list.
 
 See the url below for currently created lists already being used..
 
 https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/
 
 Would this help make things better?
The above address is hardd to bring up without the correct certificate.
I was glad to see there is no fedora-user-list.
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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 28 July 2008 23:08:15 Aaron Konstam wrote:
 On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 22:04 +0200, Anders Karlsson wrote:
  * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080728 21:48]:
   On Monday 28 July 2008 20:15:54 Mike Chambers wrote:
 
  [snip]
 
Would this help make things better?
  
   In theory, yes.  In practice, not unless there is moderator support for
   making sure that non-support threads go to the relevant list.
 
  I'm sure we could manage that. :)
 
  /Anders

 I don't think we could handle that. This split is a really bad idea.

For some of us it is an excellent idea

Anne



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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 28 July 2008 23:04:20 Aaron Konstam wrote:
 No but it explains why this list has become more useless, in that my
 questions are not answered. The redhat/fedora discussion has existed on
 a single list for ove a decade and a half. Why does it need to be broken
 up now?

Because there used to be 95% support and 5% chat.  Now it's the reverse

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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-28 Thread David

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Anne Wilson wrote:
| On Monday 28 July 2008 20:15:54 Mike Chambers wrote:
| Hi all,
|
| Reading the last couple emails from another thread on maybe new list or
| two, and to segregate the content to them was brought up and have couple
| new list names that might help make sense or to get the ball rolling?
|
| fedora-list(this one) - General Fedora talk, opinions, suggestions,
| comments, distro wars, all that type stuff not support related.
|
| fedora-user-list or fedora-support-list - Bug references, problems with
| software, computer won't boot, email don't work, firefox plugins not
| working, etc.. where problems are asked about and responded to on
| *official releases*.
|
| fedora-testers-list - as is, for testing alpha, beta, preview, rc
| releases when preparing a new release.
|
| fedora-devel-list - as is, for development of fedora, and the rest that
| is currently used on that list.
|
| See the url below for currently created lists already being used..
|
| https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/
|
| Would this help make things better?
|
| In theory, yes.  In practice, not unless there is moderator support
for making
| sure that non-support threads go to the relevant list.


The users that this situation seriously effects are those still on
dial-up and those with limited bandwidth.

I think it is very, very, rude to carry on these types of OT discussions
under those conditions. They should go private IMO.

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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-28 Thread Ed Greshko

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Monday 28 July 2008 23:08:15 Aaron Konstam wrote:

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 22:04 +0200, Anders Karlsson wrote:

* Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20080728 21:48]:

On Monday 28 July 2008 20:15:54 Mike Chambers wrote:

[snip]


Would this help make things better?

In theory, yes.  In practice, not unless there is moderator support for
making sure that non-support threads go to the relevant list.

I'm sure we could manage that. :)

/Anders

I don't think we could handle that. This split is a really bad idea.


For some of us it is an excellent idea


Yes it is an excellent idea.  But, sadly, it probably won't work since it 
relies on reasonable humans to understand and be willing and able to 
separate their posts among the newly created lists.



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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-28 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 22:16 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Monday 28 July 2008 23:04:20 Aaron Konstam wrote:
  No but it explains why this list has become more useless, in that my
  questions are not answered. The redhat/fedora discussion has existed on
  a single list for more than a decade and a half. Why does it need to be 
  broken
  up now?
 
 Because there used to be 95% support and 5% chat.  Now it's the reverse
 
 Anne
That is because people can't control themselves and they won't do any
better under the split system.  I hope this is an idea that will jut
die. I have enough trouble monitoring the 5 or 6 lists I must monitor
now.
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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
   No but it explains why this list has become more
 useless, in that my
   questions are not answered. The redhat/fedora
 discussion has existed on
   a single list for more than a decade and a half.
 Why does it need to be broken
   up now?
  
  Because there used to be 95% support and 5% chat.  Now
 it's the reverse
  
  Anne
 That is because people can't control
 themselves and they won't do any
 better under the split system.  I hope this  is an idea that will just die. 
 I have enough  trouble monitoring the 5 or 6 lists I
 must monitor now.
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+1 :)

Antonio 


  

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Re: New support lists?

2008-07-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Mike Chambers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi all,

 Reading the last couple emails from another thread on maybe new list or
 two, and to segregate the content to them was brought up and have couple
 new list names that might help make sense or to get the ball rolling?

 fedora-list(this one) - General Fedora talk, opinions, suggestions,
 comments, distro wars, all that type stuff not support related.

 fedora-user-list or fedora-support-list - Bug references, problems with
 software, computer won't boot, email don't work, firefox plugins not
 working, etc.. where problems are asked about and responded to on
 *official releases*.

 fedora-testers-list - as is, for testing alpha, beta, preview, rc
 releases when preparing a new release.

 fedora-devel-list - as is, for development of fedora, and the rest that
 is currently used on that list.

 See the url below for currently created lists already being used..

 https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/

 Would this help make things better?

Not really.  This list worked great until Alexandre hijacked it.  He
needs to be booted for persisting in spewing all that OT shit into our
mailboxes after being asked repeatedly to stop.

I used to be ambivalent about the Free Software folks vs. the Open
Source folks.  I'd like to congratulate Alexandre for fucking that
ambivalence.  I now understand why the Free Software folks get
laughed at so hard, so often.

And my opinion of Red Hat is shit now, since they have a
representative like Alexandre fronting for them.

What a dipshit.  Educated, maybe, but dumb as a rock.

LW

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