From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 9 20:20:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.il.home.com (ha1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5022B37BC27 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 20:20:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by mail.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000710032051.NLUV1229.mail.rdc1.il.home.com@math.missouri.edu> for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 20:20:51 -0700 Message-ID: <396940D4.5CABAC4B@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 22:19:48 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Synching my src... References: <200007100321.UAA01335@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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