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Date:      Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:13:16 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BATTLE: The quest for proper filesystem layouts
Message-ID:  <20020314211316.GG10938@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <em1yemgb8v.yem@localhost.localdomain>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0203141527590.23505-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <em1yemgb8v.yem@localhost.localdomain>

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On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 12:12:00PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> (moved to -chat)
> 
> Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > Sounds like a discussion for -chat.
> 
> I want to agree, but from
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html
> 
> FREEBSD-CHAT
> 
>   "Non technical items related to the FreeBSD community"
> 
>   This list contains the overflow from the other lists about
>   non-technical, social information. [more...]
> 
> Does the charter need a change or is a -techchat list needed?  I don't
> see a list who's charter includes technical chat except lists for some
> specific topics.  Or maybe the -misc newsgroup should be good enough.
> 
> I'd prefer that the -chat charter change to "Only messages that doesn't
> belong in other mailing lists".  Some meta-charter should prohibit SPAM
> and some fuzzy prohibition of too much political or other messages that
> would interest people who don't use FreeBSD.
> 
Well, the last 6 mails I read on this very list should have all been on
-questions.

I think "chat" is chat, gossip, news, views, moans, groans vaguely in
the FreeBSD world, but not totally confined to it. I am suspecting
because -question is so busy some of the sneakies amongst us think we
will get a quicker technical answer in a lower volume list like this :)


-- 
Regards
   Cliff Sarginson -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>

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