Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 19:03:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@jette.heep.sax.de> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gating hackers into the newsgroups Message-ID: <199504231703.TAA01486@jette.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199504222155.RAA05328@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Apr 22, 95 05:55:18 pm
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> Our mailing list definition: > > > freebsd-hackers Technical discussions and suggestions > ... > > freebsd-current Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current > ... > > If -hackers isn't technical which lists are? > Also, which are the development lists? Am I missing out on a whole > bunch of good technical discussion about FreeBSD? I agree with Peter here. What we really need is to have a few more people reviewing Usenet and scanning the queued articles for problems that fall into their `responsibility'. By now, there are only a few people visible in Usenet. Most of the load appears to be on Jordan. Stefan Esser is a very positive example, i usually let PCI-related articles queued without an answer but the idea in mind: `Stefan will certainly have answered this one within the next couple of days.' Ah yeah, not to forget Terry, who appears to be discussing on several hundreds of Usenet groups and mailing lists. :-) Of course, it's also possible for major contributors who have a wide area of responsibility to find someone acting as a ``Usenet gateway and answer cache'' :-), who can answer the `FAQ of the week' out of his cache, and forward the real technical questions to the person in question. This way, those who're already snowed under won't have to handle the immense load of Usenet, while they can make sure that they won't lose important problem reports. (My own recent Usenet activities are rather a side-effect of problems in my paywork. I can't play this role forever.) The hackers list is already near 10 MB / month. I won't like to see it further bloated. Remember there are enough people in the outside world who really have to _pay_ for every and each kilobyte of mail. Jörg
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