There is no way in hell everyone reads every word of -devel and
-private.
(Go ahead and say Im wrong :) ). I used pine for a long while, and got by.
I switched to gnus, which is not too comfortable, but is threaded. I just try
to scan the topics for emergencies (important broken things, and the like),
and a few topics that I may be interested in, or may know something about.
I think that if you maintain a less important package, then your time
requirements
will not be too great-- you don't need to get into every political discussion.
Debian also very much needs people who invest little time, but maintain
a package or two.
John
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John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
