On 5 May 2011, at 23:30, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > On 5 May 2011 23:25, Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 5 May 2011, at 23:18, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: >> > >>> 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. >> > > I don't think it's true, especially given the list was set up during > the Sun era. It's more it's the only reason I could possibly think of > why you would want two separate lists. It's not like either are > particularly heavy traffic. In fact, most OpenJDK lists only have > traffic because commit notifications are sent to them. > > Maybe someone should put some of them out of their misery?
I'm in no doubt that it was a well-intentioned breach of YAGNI that made it happen (probably emulating OpenSolaris where it was in fact necessary due to the overwhelming traffic on the -discuss list). S.
