From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 9 21:13:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from public.bta.net.cn (public.bta.net.cn [202.96.0.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0B737B730; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:13:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robinson@netrinsics.com) Received: from netrinsics.com ([202.108.133.11]) by public.bta.net.cn (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA12755; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:10:11 +0800 (GMT) Received: (from robinson@localhost) by netrinsics.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA16592; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:13:56 +0800 (+0800) (envelope-from robinson) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:13:56 +0800 (+0800) From: Michael Robinson Message-Id: <200007100413.MAA16592@netrinsics.com> To: duhring@charter.net, msmith@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Synching my src... Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200007100321.UAA01335@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith 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