Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:01:02 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: gnn@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creation of a new list for Embedded.... Message-ID: <20060621155727.E8526@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <m2veqwflzi.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> References: <m21wtlsszn.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com> <20060619115827.A25435@wonkity.com> <m2veqwflzi.wl%gnn@neville-neil.com>
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, gnn@freebsd.org wrote: > At Mon, 19 Jun 2006 12:10:44 -0600 (MDT), > Warren Block wrote: >> So will freebsd-small go away? Both lists share the description of >> "Dedicated and embedded systems based on FreeBSD". > > When I initially talked to people about this the thought was that the list > would be moved, but that was considered too intrusive, and the idea was > dropped. > > For my own part I am now using exclusively embedded, and will drop my small > membership in a week or so. If people "vote with their feet" and the > traffic on small drops to 0 then we can make some choices about it, but that > is not important right now. I, for one, would still prefer to see the existing subscriptions move over :-). I often subscribe to lists and then poll the mailbox every now and then to see if there are topics of interest. Little annoys me more than coming back from a vacation and discovering that I have, in effect, been dropped from the mailing list becaue the subscriber base hasn't been moved to a replacement list. This happened to me recently on the Linux security modules mailing list -- they also offer no archive of the messages since the move, so I can't easily find out what they talked about over the last two months :-(. If we believe embedded@ is really replacing small@, my feeling is we should add all current subscribers to the new list, alias the old list to the new list, and remove subscribers + disable subscriptions to the old list. The old small@ archives will remain around, and pointed to for the purposes of access to old archives, but I think having two lists is confusing. Or, at least, I'm confused. :-) Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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