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Date:      Thu, 27 Aug 1998 11:01:58 -0500
From:      Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu>
To:        Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>
Cc:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Not receiving CVS commit messages 
Message-ID:  <199808271601.LAA05116@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:41:57 %2B0200." <199808270841.KAA02095@semyam.dinoco.de> 

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>> In any case, you can get the same functionality by subscribing
>> to cvs-all, and using a procmail filter to weed out what you
>> aren't interested in.
>
>It's not the same.  That would increase transfer times significantly
>for me as I would have to transfer all log messages instead of just
>the kernel related ones.  It simply costs money I prefer to spend on
>more useful things instead.
>
>I am just interested in the kernel to get noticed when anything impor-
>tant happens there.  I don't care much about bugs in user land prog-
>rams as they don't lead to the whole machine crashing.
>
>To me cvs-all, cvs-bin, cvs-ports and cvs-sys sounds like a reasonable
>way to split it.  The hundreds of lists that previously existed are a
>bit too much IMHO.

I completely agree with this.  I would not mind having fewer lists,
but cvs-all has quite a low signal to noise ratio for some of us.  I
really don't care to see the ports/web/doc commits.  Perhaps at least
the src commits can be seperated?

Chris




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