From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 14 13:15:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from post-11.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDCA537B404 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:15:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-11.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16lcZV-0001BM-00 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:15:37 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 217AF4881D for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:15:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 28BC622599; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:13:16 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:13:16 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BATTLE: The quest for proper filesystem layouts Message-ID: <20020314211316.GG10938@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:12:00PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > (moved to -chat) > > Jan Grant writes: > > > Sounds like a discussion for -chat. > > I want to agree, but from > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html > > FREEBSD-CHAT > > "Non technical items related to the FreeBSD community" > > This list contains the overflow from the other lists about > non-technical, social information. [more...] > > Does the charter need a change or is a -techchat list needed? I don't > see a list who's charter includes technical chat except lists for some > specific topics. Or maybe the -misc newsgroup should be good enough. > > I'd prefer that the -chat charter change to "Only messages that doesn't > belong in other mailing lists". Some meta-charter should prohibit SPAM > and some fuzzy prohibition of too much political or other messages that > would interest people who don't use FreeBSD. > Well, the last 6 mails I read on this very list should have all been on -questions. I think "chat" is chat, gossip, news, views, moans, groans vaguely in the FreeBSD world, but not totally confined to it. I am suspecting because -question is so busy some of the sneakies amongst us think we will get a quicker technical answer in a lower volume list like this :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message