On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 09:29:31AM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 07 June 2011 02:27:26 Bret Busby wrote: > > First thing - I think that it would be a good idea for each version to > > have its own mailing list, > > Please, no! We can surely all benefit from the issues that people are > having, > even in versions which we are not using? I know that I do. And although I > am currently using Lenny, I want to know about issues in Squeeze and Wheezy > for when I upgrade. Indeed, they can help me decide when to upgrade. > > Not to mention the fact that some of us for one reason or another are using > an > obsolute version (I had to recently for a course that I was doing.) An e.g. > Etch mailing list would have virtually no traffic, but by going to this more > general list, I was able to get help. And how many back mailing lists would > you keep? How far back would these separate lists go? Woody? Potato? the > beginning? >
Not to mention the test posts and subscription issues and the arduous and redundant associated threads that would plague the newest list for at least a year every alternate year. And to which list would users post OT? They'd be forced to use D-community-offtopic! Moreover, to which would Ubuntu users post? They'd have to figure the closest equivalent release. But they might get frustrated and forgo posting. Wait a minute . . . -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- 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/20110607194401.GC25478@Europa.office
