> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 22:23:42 +0530 (IST) > From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: A suggestion [was re: [LI] Programmers] > > Instead of fragmenting the entire list into LI General, LI Programmers, > and perhaps LI RedHatters and LI Debianers ;) -- > > 1. Introduce a set of list topics - these are prefixes like : > > HELP: (for help queries), PROG: (programming / kernel hack), SYSAD: > (system admin and networking queries), MAIL: (email based queries), > HWAR: (hardware, sis card etc) queries, COMM: (commercial posts). I second this suggestion: Sounds good, though it takes (lots of?) time for us listers to develop the disciplin, as the history of the List shows. I keep wondering what is it that makes us flare so periodically (with luls before the storm, during which there is always a serious, mature discussions about pros and cons about many things). I have noticed that most of the `fight' is concentrated around `distros'. (I always thought that each distro has its pros and cons and after all, Linux is about choice: you choose the one you WANT!). There are of course, occasional `misunderstandings' about whether or not a posting is commercial, and how a bug report should be posted (recent posting by Suresh about getting root-access via sendmail- more discussions were regarding how or how not he should have posted rather than the solution to prevent such misuse!!!). There are also occasinal `war' regarding GPL or GNU? Should there exist any commercial s/w that works on Linux or not (there are hundreds of them right now- and thousand free!). I keep seeing a pattern, though I am not able to decipher the pattern. Someday, perhaps! Of course, we do need healthy discussions about pros and cons of everything on Linux, but a healthy one please. No one should get offended if someone else points out a bug or a problem, but should be done so in a right way. This `mud-slinging' which I saw for first time on the list, shows our immaturity. Ashok P.S. Forgive me for this long, irrelevant (?) note. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please search the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before posting your question to avoid repetition and save bandwidth.