Les Mikesell wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
I'm speaking from my own perspective, but I'm sure others have
similar stories. How many users use all CentOS releases?
I totally agree John - as CentOS gets more popular i too have found
myself using 'Mark folder as Read' too often.
This is a good thing. I've just left the Fedora Core mailing lists
(users & devel) and the traffic didn't bother me at all. It's a great
Not everyone can have such a fine Internet connexion.
There's always gmail if you'd rather have a web interface and not worry
about the bulk of messages you skip.
I can't read offline.
Splitting by version is usually a bad idea. It causes things to
split, people post the wrong version information to the wrong lists
and it becomes a PITA. Hell, I've noticed enough people whinge and
moan about top posting... Imagine that on someone posting a v5
question to a v4 list!
I thought it worked very well indeed with Red Hat Linux. I note that
Red Hat continues with that plan with RHEL.
What happens if the person who knows the answer to a version 3 question
has moved on to version 4? Or questions about the 90+% of things that
are identical across all unix-like systems?
Nothing's perfect. Why not everyone join the Fedora list? Just about
everything that's in CentOS has been in Fedora too.
As I said, it seems to work in other places.
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Cheers
John
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