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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