From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 26 3:38:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30BC37BED4; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 03:38:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD85D18108; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:38:28 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000425133242.A42075@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <00042515105300.02802@nomad.dataplex.net> <20000425133242.A42075@wopr.caltech.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:24:59 +0200 To: Matthew Hunt , Richard Wackerbarth From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Archive pruning Cc: Kris Kennaway , current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:32 PM -0700 2000/4/25, Matthew Hunt wrote: > Maintaining a CVS repository is necessary only if you are working > on the code, so your proposal would only affect devlopers, not Joe > User. Normal users do not maintain copies of the repository and do > not have a frequent need to examine history. True enough. However, how many "normal users" would you expect to be subscribing to the freebsd-current mailing list? If this is a current versus stable versus release issue, I think we can all agree that most users are clueless enough that they can't even figure out how to send e-mail to the freebsd-questions mailing list, much less anything else. So, you are either forced to change your definition of "normal users" to be people who would be subscribing to this list (and hopefully contributing in some way) and you have to acknowledge that change in definition, or you have to change the term that you use. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message