Quoting Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One option is to split this mailing list. One possibility would be: > > 1. linux-il - mailing list for Q&A and newbie questions.[1] Also > announcements > of events.
(snip) First, the list was not supposed to be a newbie list in any case, so this first one doesn't make sense. I'm sure people don't want to downgrade this list into a newbie list, and that's why there is a different mailing list call gnubies. Second, the "forum" method in which you move threads into a different forums when they become irrelevant for the discussion is not applicable to mailing list. There is no sane person who will subscibe to a linux-il-wars list. Most of us subscribe to lists for sane reasons, and start a flame war incidentally, wishing in general that there are less flame wars and more info. Also, how exactly do you move a discussion? And how do you cause a person who is subscribed to one mailing list to be aware that there is a discussion going on in another list to which he is not subscribed? In a forum system, there are various ways to do that. First, they are all available to everybody, and you can look in from time to time, and second, there are usually things like "last messages posted" areas in the main page which tell you something. You can also keep track of your thread even if it moved, if you have asked for email updates on it, because even when it moves, you still get the e-mail reminders. All of which doesn't happen in mailing lists and would be too convoluted to try to implement by social engineering. In my many years of mailing list and forum experience, I came to one sad conclusion: in order for a mailing list to be productive, with low noise and high content, it has to have strict rules, and ruthless and very active moderators, who are not ashamed to kick people out when they break the rules after they have been warned. Herouth ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
