From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 7 10:48:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E85152EA; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 10:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from home.elischer.org (home.elischer.org [207.76.204.203]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA67752; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 10:48:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 10:48:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer X-Sender: julian@home.elischer.org To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: arch@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <37FCB0C4.2D877215@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > As most of you are probably aware, the freebsd-arch mailing list is > no longer a moderated list, as we know it. For now, it acts like a > non-moderated list, except that some threads may be locked out of > the list if they stray off topic. > > Some people tried starting two different threads in that list. We > failed in both cases. Though we don't know yet, I suspect it is > simply a case of lack of subscribers. > > So, here goes a call. Freebsd-arch is supposed to be a list were > technical content can be discussed, and with a sufficient high > signal/noise ratio to make it possible for committers to subscribe > to it. While -committers fit this description, it is not of open > subscription. Well majordomo won't let me subscribe because it's a 'closed list' so how am I supposed to subscribe? (Assuming I'm not already). > > Thus, I ask you, committers, to subscribe to that mailing list. > Right now, you won't increase your mailing load by a single byte, so > there is no immediate risk... :-) Please, give it a try. We need > something like that list. > > And the same I ask of you, hackers-subscribed non-committers. > > Just to clarify, -arch is supposed to be used when discussing > changes to FreeBSD itself. Things that might (or might not, > depending on how the discussion goes) end up committed. The kind of > thing we have been using -committers for, but when we want input of > a larger group. > > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@newsguy.com > dcs@freebsd.org > > "I always feel generous when I'm in the inner circle of a > conspiracy to subvert the world order and, with a small group of > allies, just defeated an alien invasion. Maybe I should value myself > a little more?" > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message