On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, J. Imlay wrote: > I think it would be very interesting if there was a public archive of > these "private lists. It would give people on the outside a better > understanding of what is actually being talked about and actively worked > on. Also it would make a lot of us much less ignorant. (and that's a good > thing for everyone)
On checking, it appears that, apart from the lists for submitted patches, all the private lists are defunct except for one, the devel list. > Or are there actual resons why outsiders can't read these lists? > (copyright stuff and what not?) Officially, that is the only reason why the devel list still exists, but devel does still have a lot of traffic that could perfectly well be made public. I have to admit that I feel different about the xpert and devel lists. Xpert has a lot more traffic, and lots of traffic that, while it needs an export to answer it, doesn't really interest an expert. Devel has thus become a list that I read in a different from a of mind from xpert. I'm partly to blame for this "dumbing down"; since I don't read newbie anyone with a problem that needs my help has to ask on xpert :-( It may just have been teething or technical problems with the experiment in moderating xpert to block spam, but I got the impression that the traffic was more than we could comfortably moderate. Otherwise I'd suggest splitting devel into a closed list for things that had to kept confidential, and a moderated, archived public list. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
