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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 02/01/2026 03:23, Enji Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote: >> On Jan 1, 2026, at 5:47 AM, Dmitry Salychev wrote: >> >> >> Paul Floyd writes: >> >> >>> On 2026-01-01 07:19, Mark Millard wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I've received a public request via part of a bugzilla >>>> comment on a submittal: >>>> >>>> "can you please stop treating our bug tracker and mailing >>>> lists as your personal blog?" >>> >>> My suggestion is that you try to cut down unnecessary detail. It can >>> sometime be difficult to find what the point of your messages are. If >>> people ask for clarification you can always add the details later. >> >> I second this. It might also be hard for me to distill the message's >> essence which is frequently hidden behind a pile of details. > > I third this: more information isn’t necessarily better and there are different ways of capturing different information (maybe a blog or diary would be helpful for raw form ideas like that :)!). If something gets too noisy, I tune it out (and potentially miss some helpful information in the meantime). … Earlier, I mentioned the constraints and very many peculiarities of email. Above, quotation levels have broken. In a thread elsewhere, a request for clarification (for additional details) might break quotation levels and/or wrapping. The subsequent details might additionally break quotation levels and/or wrapping. Distillation of a message = its essence. A subject line is essential, a _good_ subject line is essential, and if the essence (the distillation is) presented _as_ the subject line, the essential change of the subject line will please some people, will displease others. We can not please everyone. Less information, succinctness, is not necessarily better.  I could share an example of succinctness that breaks all ground rules of the FreeBSD Community Code of Conduct. My reason for not sharing here and now is not mutual respect for the value of brevity. FreeBSD-specific information that is blogged beyond the freebsd.org domain pleases some people, displeases others. Some of the people who are not pleased are absent from the less than entirely public places where values such as centralisation are discussed. --------------FqIWQgq1SVMXXUnKhKfqnz49 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
On 02/01/2026 03:23, Enji Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote:

On Jan 1, 2026, at 5:47 AM, Dmitry Salychev <dsl@FreeBSD.org> wrote:


Paul Floyd <paulf2718@gmail.com> writes:



On 2026-01-01 07:19, Mark Millard wrote:



I've received a public request via part of a bugzilla
comment on a submittal:

"can you please stop treating our bug tracker and mailing
lists as your personal blog?"


My suggestion is that you try to cut down unnecessary detail. It can
sometime be difficult to find what the point of your messages are. If
people ask for clarification you can always add the details later.


I second this. It might also be hard for me to distill the message's
essence which is frequently hidden behind a pile of details.


I third this: more information isn’t necessarily better and there are different ways of capturing different information (maybe a blog or diary would be helpful for raw form ideas like that :)!). If something gets too noisy, I tune it out (and potentially miss some helpful information in the meantime). …


Earlier, I mentioned the constraints and very many peculiarities of email. 

Above, quotation levels have broken. 

In a thread elsewhere, a request for clarification (for additional details) might break quotation levels and/or wrapping. 

The subsequent details might additionally break quotation levels and/or wrapping. 

Distillation of a message = its essence. A subject line is essential, a _good_ subject line is essential, and if the essence (the distillation is) presented _as_ the subject line, the essential change of the subject line will please some people, will displease others. 

We can not please everyone. 

Less information, succinctness, is not necessarily better.  I could share an example of succinctness that breaks all ground rules of the FreeBSD Community Code of Conduct. My reason for not sharing here and now is not mutual respect for the value of brevity.

FreeBSD-specific information that is blogged beyond the freebsd.org domain pleases some people, displeases others. 

Some of the people who are not pleased are absent from the less than entirely public places where values such as centralisation are discussed. 

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