From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 9 20:13: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-51.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9DBD37BB96 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 20:13:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA01335; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 20:21:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007100321.UAA01335@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: David Uhring Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Synching my src... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Jul 2000 05:59:30 CDT." <00070906005000.00646@dave.uhring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 20:21:07 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > This is a pet peeve of mine. Freebsd-stable is supposed to be the mailing > > list that is required reading for anyone tracking stable, where all useful > > information related to tracking stable is to be found. > > > > However, the list is increasingly such a high-volume, low signal-to-noise-ratio > > chatfest that it no longer serves its intended purpose for even moderately > > busy people. A prohibitive amount of time is required to sort out what is > > relevant from what isn't. ... > I'll add my second to that proposal. This is just the sort of chitchat that you're both supposedly opposed to. And now you've gone and started another lengthy meta-thread about list usage (which anyone with half a clue could have told you was pointless) to further reduce the signal-to-noise ratio. Surely not what you really intended. 8) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message