Hrrrm.
Few thoughts etc:
1 - note that you don't mention slug-debian (obviously because
debian *is* Linux ;))
2 - it's very unlikely, IME, that this will propagate properly -
I would be surprised if people would be willing to make the
effort to shift a discussion like "Debian Still Sucks" onto an
OS specific list because it was so wideranging. Also, a lot of
people may not be subscribed to an distro discussion list - I
probably wouldn't bother with the list for any of the RPM based distros -
who might have an interest, or expertise, in a specific
subject...
3 - Moderating... To get someone to moderate a list, or even
just to read the SLUG lists that in depth to get every
instance of an OS specific post shifted, involves a hell of a
lot of effort. I think I remember the guy at eazel who was in
charge of moderating submissions to the Nautilus devel list
saying it was taking up a significant part of his working day
just doing that.
just my �0.02, but I think this would be at best impractical.
note, however, I can't think of a reasonable suggestion myself.
Kudos for trying :-)
cheers
-Thom
At some point around Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 09:42:13PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> At the risk of being flamed to death (again...D'oh!), I
> was reading through some old email today, and came upon
> the folowing revelation;
>
> There has been a lot of OT mail recently (yes, I'm as
> guilty as anyone else), and talk of a slug_social or
> slug_OT mailing list.
>
> I'd like to extend this further and propose a "distro"
> based series of lists.
>
> Not to take away from the existing list, which will
> always (I imagine) be the centre of the SLUG universe,
> but when a question gets too distro-specific, you move
> the discussion to;
>
> slug_suse
> slug_e-emith
> slug_deadrat (oops... redhat)
> slug_<insert-distro-here>
>
> Rather than have this degerate into a package-based
> series of lists, only distro-SPECIFIC stuff would be
> moved - all other mail would go through the normal slug
> list...
>
> I have no idea if there is an insignificant amount of
> work in setting these up or not, but I would imagine
> that each distro list could be "moderated" by someone
> who uses that distro...
>
> Thoughts ??
>
> Jon
>
>
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