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Date:      Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:49:47 +0100 (CET)
From:      Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>
To:        absinthe@pobox.com
Cc:        Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: List changes (was: home pc use)
Message-ID:  <20011121154312.V4192-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011121142753.25140.qmail@web10401.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Dylan Carlson wrote:

> Agree.  We really need a "freebsd-discussion" list to move these threads to.
> They're valid discussions, however, the purpose of this list is to answer
> people's questions (unless I misunderstood the charter).
>
> The questions list should be moderated. There's way too much noise.  As much as
> I would love to help people, this list is impossible to sort the real questions
> from the countless opinions and rhetoric.   I'm very close to unsubscribing.

Making this list moderated is one method (which I don't like too much,
however). The other method is each individual's right to use mail filters
- I for example didn't get to see more than three messages of this thread,
because I simply decided to automatically redirect all others into the bit
bucket. I just read your message (you changed the subject, that broke my
filter), and, well, I think all in all the list is fine. Every now and
then something that doesn't really belong here turns up, but I can live
well with that.

Actually, I wouldn't say that the topic I'm writing about right now is
something that belongs on this list either, and therefore, after having
said what I think this once, I will remain silent on this and focus on
more valid threads instead. If everybody else would do the same, we'd push
the signal-to-noise ration down quite a bit without much effort.

Greetings
Nils


Nils Holland
Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany
http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org


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