Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 22:19:48 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Synching my src... Message-ID: <396940D4.5CABAC4B@math.missouri.edu> References: <200007100321.UAA01335@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > > 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. > Well, I would think that this one extra thread they have started will change the signal to noise ratio from 1:10 to 1:10.01, hardy making a dent in the amount of noise. But if by some small chance someone takes their idea seriously, well, I think it would have been the small amount of extra noise. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen stephen@math.missouri.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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