Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison at sun.com> wrote:
> Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
>
> > I think it's a bit too late, just go with the flow and leave -discuss
> > alone. Lobbies are always crowded and noisy, and those arriving in Hotel
> > Solaris need to feel welcome in order to want to say. Who cares what
> > version of Solaris they happened to try first, give them a chance to
> > figure stuff out. Gently directing questions to -help or another more
> > appropriate list should be preferred, but if someone decides to answer a
> > questions here and now, I don't see why not.
>
> I disagree, I suspect many people have unsubscribed because of the
> unacceptable S/N ratio, and as a result we no longer have any good way
> to reach those people. Off-topic posts on *any* mailing list aren't a
We should try to find out whether this is true.
/usr/bin was created as a private sidestep for /bin, later
/usr/local/bin was created as a private sidestep for /usr/bin, ....
It is better to have clean decisions instead of moving away because of noise.
I can currrently live with the current level of newbe noise and I am in hope
that an official OpenSolaris helpdesk would reduce the amount of traffic in
this list.
J?rg
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