On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:03:01PM -0400, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: > >A lot of the traffic is in opensolaris-discuss. Would it make sense to > >try to move some of the traffic to topic-specific lists? > > You mean out of opensolaris-discuss? Good idea, but the problem is that it > won't stop most of the messages anyway since S/N ratio is quite low in > it.
The objective is not so much to reduce the number of posts to -discuss as to ensure that useful and important messages can be found easily. This list has so little signal that it's easier at least in the short term to move that signal elsewhere than to reduce the noise to a manageable level. I'd encourage people thinking of posting to this list to look at http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/ and see if a more targeted list would be appropriate. In particular, a few of the more common ones: - Anything that starts or ends with 'Help! I can't...' belongs on opensolaris-help. - Questions or suggestions about the compilers and source code management belong on tools-discuss. - The discussions about GNOME and KDE belong on desktop-discuss. - Bugs and RFEs should be reported at http://bugs.opensolaris.org. - Flames, personal attacks, advocacy, arguments without facts or data, and juvenile sniping belong on alt.flame or some other non-OpenSolaris venue, though I'm hopeful we'll create an appropriate list soon for this kind of garbage. Some suggestions are opensolaris-swill, opensolaris-offtopic, and opensolaris-bitbucket. Other suggestions would be welcome, but they'd only be on topic for that list so please do not make them here. Do not hold to the fallacious belief that everyone is on -discuss and therefore it's the place to post to be sure your message is read. Many people will give up on -discuss or even unsubscribe from it if the current noise level continues. But the experts who are managing and supporting the individual communities will be reading the lower-traffic focused lists, and you're actually much more likely to get a useful response that way. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Solaris Kernel Team "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
