Re: List traffic

On Fri, 14 May 2010, Kevin Grittner wrote:

> "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Would anyone argue against rolling those two (sql and admin) into
>> -general as a first step?
>
> At the risk of repeating myself, I won't be able to keep up with the
> traffic of the combined list; so rather than read 100% of the
> messages from a smaller set, I'll need to pick and choose based on
> subject line or some such. I get the impression that other people,
> who read different subsets of the lists, will be forced to a similar
> change. That may result in either some posts "slipping through the
> cracks" or in increasing the burden of responding to the posts for
> those brave few who wade through them all.

That's what I find with the freebsd-questions list ... there is so much
noise in there that I tend to avoid posting to it for fear that my email
will just get skip'd over ...

I am definitely against *merging* lists ... getting rid of the 'meta list'
makes more sense so as to force ppl to *use* the smaller lists then to
merge smaller lists and *increase* the noise on one of them ...

----
Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A.
scrappy(at)hub(dot)org http://www.hub.org

Yahoo:yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ:7615664 MSN:scrappy(at)hub(dot)org