Re: Thinking about (mis)use of -private

2005-04-07 Thread David Schmitt
On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:15, Stephen Frost wrote: > Non-developers subscribe to d-d-a to hear & follow DD stuff. I don't > see there as being any reason for them to piss & moan about there being > DD stuff on d-d-a, that's just plain silly. As one of the non-maintaining subscribers to d-d-a,

Re: Thinking about (mis)use of -private

2005-04-07 Thread Stephen Frost
* Andrew Pollock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:43:13PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > No, that's d-d-a, just get around the name issue (ie: ignore it/get over > > it/whatever) and use it, just don't abuse it. > > > > But there's arguably a lot of non-developers subscrib

Re: Thinking about (mis)use of -private

2005-04-06 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Daniel Ruoso] > > The issue with -devel being too high traffic and off-topic is of course > > still there; > > That's something important. Use of a "Subject: CFD: " convention would mitigate this. Particularly if the convention were widespread enough to be a (de facto) standard, and thus to ma

Re: Thinking about (mis)use of -private

2005-04-06 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:43:13PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Daniel Ruoso ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On the other side, d-d-a is a list which has a very low traffic, and > > certainly almost every developer see the posts in d-d-a, but... not > > every email that intends to reach all devel

Re: Thinking about (mis)use of -private

2005-04-06 Thread Chris Waters
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:37:12PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > I have the impression that some geek mass media also monitor d-d-a as an > unofficial source of (taken as) Debian press releases, so I'd be a bit > cautious with that, not only DDs are reading d-d-a. So what you're saying is that d-

Re: Thinking about (mis)use of -private

2005-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 02:52:46PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > The issue with -devel being too high traffic and off-topic is of course > > still there; > That's something important. So take back the list by posting more on-topic stuff there? The best way to combat off-topicness is by encourag

Re: Thinking about (mis)use of -private

2005-04-06 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Ter, 2005-04-05 às 10:37, Michael Banck escreveu: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:59:46AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On the contrary, I think a mail intended to reach all developers is > > the *definition* of an announcement (wrt d-d-a). > Also, there's a difference between 'Every DD should/m

Re: Thinking about (mis)use of -private

2005-04-05 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:59:46AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On the contrary, I think a mail intended to reach all developers is > the *definition* of an announcement (wrt d-d-a). I have the impression that some geek mass media also monitor d-d-a as an unofficial source of (taken as) Debian p

Re: Thinking about (mis)use of -private

2005-04-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:38:30PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > I was recently thinking about the misuse of debian-private mailing list, > and I saw that most of the bad-uses of -private were made with the > intention of reaching all developers. > Is this wrong? Yes, and no. The question is that d

Re: Thinking about (mis)use of -private

2005-04-04 Thread Jérôme Marant
Daniel Ruoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Hi, > Isn't a public mailing list (with public logs), but moderated to > @debian.org posters, a possible solution to the current misuse of > debian-private? Why the hell spending one's precious time with such metaphysical questions? In any case, co

Re: Thinking about (mis)use of -private

2005-04-04 Thread Clint Adams
> I was recently thinking about the misuse of debian-private mailing list, > and I saw that most of the bad-uses of -private were made with the > intention of reaching all developers. > > Is this wrong? Yes, and no. The question is that debian-devel has too > much traffic and it's difficult to fol

Re: Thinking about (mis)use of -private

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Frost
* Daniel Ruoso ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On the other side, d-d-a is a list which has a very low traffic, and > certainly almost every developer see the posts in d-d-a, but... not > every email that intends to reach all developers is appropriate to d-d-a > since it's not allways an announce. >

Thinking about (mis)use of -private

2005-04-04 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Hi, I was recently thinking about the misuse of debian-private mailing list, and I saw that most of the bad-uses of -private were made with the intention of reaching all developers. Is this wrong? Yes, and no. The question is that debian-devel has too much traffic and it's difficult to follow all