Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2026 19:23:34 -0800 From: "Enji Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Dmitry Salychev <dsl@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Paul Floyd <paulf2718@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question on how much of my list messaging is considered inappropriate content for the lists I post to? Message-ID: <358ACE63-4FC7-451B-8002-D24B283FCB6D@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86ldihqwal.fsf@peasant.salychev.org> References: <BED67752-363D-46EE-8DD6-7FDDC6998EE8.ref@yahoo.com> <BED67752-363D-46EE-8DD6-7FDDC6998EE8@yahoo.com> <7d2a8e91-c78b-4207-a4ab-41056333bdd5@gmail.com> <86ldihqwal.fsf@peasant.salychev.org>
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> On Jan 1, 2026, at 5:47 AM, Dmitry Salychev <dsl@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > Paul Floyd <paulf2718@gmail.com> writes: > >> On 2026-01-01 07:19, Mark Millard wrote: >>> I've received a public request via part of a bugzilla >>> comment on a submittal: >>> >>> "can you please stop treating our bug tracker and mailing >>> lists as your personal blog?" >>> >> My suggestion is that you try to cut down unnecessary detail. It can >> sometime be difficult to find what the point of your messages are. If >> people ask for clarification you can always add the details later. > > I second this. It might also be hard for me to distill the message's > essence which is frequently hidden behind a pile of details. I third this: more information isn’t necessarily better and there are different ways of capturing different information (maybe a blog or diary would be helpful for raw form ideas like that :)!). If something gets too noisy, I tune it out (and potentially miss some helpful information in the meantime). Cheers, -Enjihelp
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