Re: A new list for Direction of Hurd discussion

2000-04-11 Thread Gerald Gutierrez
I concur. The word "vision" means different things to different people, but "direction" may be more down-to-earth. I think it'll end up being a list where possible applications for the Hurd are discussed. Possibly it will include rationale, method, and problems. At 01:02 AM 4/11/00 -0400, you

Re: A new list for Direction of Hurd discussion

2000-04-11 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 01:02:07AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Jeff Bailey wrote: > > > Is hurd-vision a good name for multimedia discussion? (Any dissentors? > > anyone care?) > > Is the focus of this new list multimedia only? I thought the direction was > broader

Re: A new list for Direction of Hurd discussion

2000-04-10 Thread jwf
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Jeff Bailey wrote: > Is hurd-vision a good name for multimedia discussion? (Any dissentors? > anyone care?) Is the focus of this new list multimedia only? I thought the direction was broader than that. hurd-vision would be ok, but it sort of implies pie-in-the-sky ideals

Re: A new list for Direction of Hurd discussion

2000-04-10 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, I feel that we hardly need yet another list. There are currently two low volume general discussion lists for the hurd: debian-hurd and help-hurd. Can we justify another list on a topic that has generated ten emails to date? I do not think so. If in a month this thread still has a reasonab

RE: A new list for Direction of Hurd discussion

2000-04-10 Thread Brent Fulgham
> If any of those projects are destined to become 'GNU', they > are welcome on subversions. Subversions will have a full sourceforge > frontend shortly. > > Whenever possible, I think we should try and keep things near > to the GNU servers and the Debian project - that way newbies (and old >

Re: A new list for Direction of Hurd discussion

2000-04-10 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:55:07PM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote: > > Therefore I'd like to ask if anyone would be interested in an list > > setup on a commercial list server? > > > > We'd have to suffer adverts but we won't have to hassle GNU or load > > their machines with the discussion. > > > >

Re: A new list for Direction of Hurd discussion

2000-04-10 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 09:26:40PM +0100, Nic Ferrier wrote: > >I think you're right. We need a [EMAIL PROTECTED] list :) > > Therefore I'd like to ask if anyone would be interested in an list > setup on a commercial list server? > > We'd have to suffer adverts but we won't have to hassle GNU

RE: A new list for Direction of Hurd discussion

2000-04-10 Thread Brent Fulgham
> Therefore I'd like to ask if anyone would be interested in an list > setup on a commercial list server? > > We'd have to suffer adverts but we won't have to hassle GNU or load > their machines with the discussion. > > If people want it I'll set one up. Marcus Brinkman and I started to set up

A new list for Direction of Hurd discussion

2000-04-10 Thread Nic Ferrier
>>> Gerald Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10-Apr-00 10:23:19 PM >>> At 08:48 PM 4/10/00 +0100, Nic Ferrier wrote: >>Of course, we should really do that on another list (but they're easy >>to setup these days if we're prepared to accept adverts). >I think you're right. We need a [EMAIL PROTECTED