Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:13:56 +0800 (+0800) From: Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com> To: duhring@charter.net, msmith@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Synching my src... Message-ID: <200007100413.MAA16592@netrinsics.com> In-Reply-To: <200007100321.UAA01335@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: >This is just the sort of chitchat that you're both supposedly opposed to. I'm not opposed to chitchat. I think it's great that all the FreeBSD followers have a forum to hang out and socialize about uptimes and their old hardware and whatnot. And freebsd-stable serves that purpose quite well. However, freebsd-stable is not an effective forum for communicating important, timely product information from people who know it to people who need it. Nor will it ever be. >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. Of course it's pointless. That's precisely why I did deliberately did *not* propose to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of freebsd-stable. >Surely not what you really intended. 8) What I intended was that a new, low-traffic list be created with a signal-to-noise ratio enforced by administrative fiat. The response to this proposal has so far been overwhelmingly positive. 90% of FreeBSD administrators could get 90% of the information they need to track stable with less than 10% of the messages they now must read. It's unreasonable not to optimize this problem. -Michael Robinson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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