Ioannis Vranos wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
Think of this as a motion as one might move at a meeting. Discussion
and refinement are in order.
I don't understand the current rationale for a single CentOS users'
list; probably in times past it was sensible, but I think the time has
come for splitting the list by release.
I'm speaking from my own perspective, but I'm sure others have similar
stories. How many users use all CentOS releases?
I am not on the Fedora users' list because of the volume of email,
though I do use Fedora Core and might usefully contribute to FC in
that way.
Similarly, I'm no longer on the OpenSUSE list, same story.
The time has come when I must, again, reduce the volume of email I
see, because it's clogging my modem.
I use CentOS4 and plan to use CentOS5. I am interested in email for
those, but not for CentOS 3 (I have no systems) nor CentOS 2 (I have
one RHL 7.3 system that thinks it's CentOS 2, but it's in maintenance
mode, and anything I do I will do alone).
I don't know how much email I would eliminate by dropping email for
Centos < C4, but when I move to CentOS 5 I will lose interest in C4
and then there will be savings.
If this list were split into one for each release, then subscribers
could choose which email they see. At present, it's all or none, and
neither suits me.
If this list is split into four, then I expect the transition method
would be to subscribe everyone on this list to the new four.
At some point, this would become read-only (nobody posts), or maybe
all mail for this goes (via a filter to fix the headers) to all the
others.
By "fix the headers" I mean "do whatever it takes to ensure replies go
to the list the subscriber is replying to."
I'm sure this transition arrangement is imperfect; my objectives are
to encourage CentOS to have the separate lists, and to ensure that the
transition is fairly easy for users so we don't lose lots of subscribers.
What do others think?
For the time I have been in this list, I do not remember seeing any
message about CentOS 3.x or older. I think what should be done is
I have.
reducing the amount of emails per digest, so as to be able to use mime
digests, which I think currently is not feasible, due to the amount of
the messages per digest.
This is feasible, does not modify the size of emails, and is a
correction to a mailing list "bug" (I consider not being able to use
mime digests which is available as an option, a bug).
Digests don't, so far as I can estimate, help more than marginally, and
on various lists I often see people reply to message "digest ...." I
filter and <plonk> those.
The bulk of the messages is the same, there's just some variation in the
volume of the headers.
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Cheers
John
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