On 5 May 2011, at 23:18, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:

> On 5 May 2011 22:16,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> 
>>> From: Mario Torre <[email protected]>
>>> To: Simon Phipps <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
>>> Sent: Fri, April 29, 2011 1:26:36 PM
>>> Subject: Re: OpenJDK Governing Board Minutes: 20011/4/21
>>> 
>>>> Given we are discussing  governance I suggest we drop discuss@ instead. My
>>> comments only appear there,  for example.
>>>> 
>>>> S.
>>> 
>>> No please, this is an important topic,  valid for discuss, not just
>>> specific to gb (besides, I don't want to  subscribe to the new mailing
>>> list in the middle of a thread  :).
>> 
>> I think a whole new list for a governance board is silly anyways. Too  many
>> mailing list are just an annoyance. The governance board of  NetBeans uses 
>> the
>> nbdiscuss list which is the NetBeans Discuss list and  that works out well. 
>> No
>> separate list needed. Then everything discussing  the project is done in one
>> simple place.
>> 
>> Nothing the governance board is going to discuss is not going to be about
>> discussing the project. Thus, I don't understand the need for such a list.
>> Again, just annoying.
>> 
>> Wade
>> 
>>  ==================
>> Wade Chandler
>> Software Engineer and Developer
>> NetBeans Dream Team Member and Contributor
>> 
>> http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/NetBeansDreamTeam
>> http://www.netbeans.org
>> 
>> 
> 
> I completely agree.  There are way too many lists and the only benefit
> of this list is it allows Oracle to hide material they don't want
> everyone to see.

Personally I am happy to restrict my conspiracy theories just to the places 
where there are probably conspiracies. Mailing list hierarchy abuse seems the 
very least of our problems here.

S.


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