On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 21:46 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I started using Debian with Potato. The transition to Etch will be my > third dist-upgrade between releases. I'm beginning to see a pattern. > > During the freeze period, users must pretty much stop confronting real > software problems on which they really need help. The people to follow > this list with the intention of being helpful get bored. People start > telling jokes and whiling away the time in other ways. > > But this time the OT seems not to degenerate into shouting about > Hitler and Nazis. I wonder, is the Debian community growing up? > > I see three reasons for limiting OT: > 1) OT wastes bandwidth, especially for people on narrow band connections. > 2) OT wastes storage in the archive > 3) OT clutters up the archive and makes finding useful stuff more difficult. > > But: > 3) Google search seems to address 3). at least to my satisfaction. > > 2) The cost of disk has dropped to the point where the cost of the > extra storage must be trivial. > > Reason 1) is, however, valid, and setting up a filter for downloads > over ppp is definitely a good idea. But I wonder if the narrow band > debian-users are not also the people who actually need the most help > from this list. They might have given up on asking for instructions on > how to set this up. I think I once knew, but if I did know, I've > forgotten. Something needs to be done to help these people. > > Perhaps there could be a new digest that leaves out OT threads. This > could be set up relatively quickly, I think. And, I think the OT > posters are already pretty good about marking their post OT. > > OTOH, Etch will be released real soon now, and the problem will go away.
Paul, you are "Ding, Ding!" spot on. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]