John Hasler wrote: > "S.D.A." writes: >> Precisely, far too many lists on Debian and they could use some >> consolidation. My view is if an issue affects users of Debian; then it >> should be posted to the 'user' lists.
No. debian-user is for "Help and discussion among users of Debian". debian-announce is for "Important announcements". cf. http://lists.debian.org/users.html There are many different needs of different people. A higher number of mailing lists makes it just easier to accommodate all these needs. (It is rather simple to subscribe and unsubscribe). > Many "users" cannot tolerate the high volume of debian-user but need to > see announcements. These people subscribe only to the low-volume > "announce" lists. On the other hand it is hard to see why those who can > tolerate the high volume here cannot also subscribe the the low-volume > "announce" lists. And even users tolerating the high volume of d-u might want to have an important announcement stand out (with a different 'to') for easy filtering. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bb36f83.9070...@aktendiener.de
