From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 4 10:31:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24989 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:31:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [209.118.174.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24967; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:31:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA20791; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 12:26:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 12:26:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: Marius Bendiksen cc: Doug Russell , witr@rwwa.com, eivind@yes.no, jkh@time.cdrom.com, bsdhh@bsdhh.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An Open Letter To The FreeBSD Core Team In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980904091209.009355e0@mail.scancall.no> 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 Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Marius Bendiksen wrote: > >On the other hand, I, for example, don't subscribe to chat, as I already > > Me neither > > >listening? :) Perhaps we need two levels of FreeBSD-chat type lists, one > >for things closer related to FreeBSD, or more technical, or one where you > >post the first message(s) in a thread, and then move to the other, giving > >an introduction without the extra cruft that always seems to come as a > >thread gets older..... > > I think this is a good idea. A low-volume -chat list with more on-topic > discussions is something I could subscribe to. Are you guys new to mailing lists? There's no possible way you could adequately define a charter for such a mailing list, in a way that it would be clearly obvious to users which list to pick. In effect, you'd get 2 duplicate lists, which then everyone would crosspost to. Might as well wish for goodwill to man, while you at this. > > --- > Marius Bendiksen, IT-Trainee, ScanCall AS > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message