On 1/13/07, Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2007 22:31, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: >> What's the problem with high-traffic lists? Today, almost anybody can >> afford the bandwidth and any half decent MUA can group by threads and >> apply powerful filters on the fly. > > Its not the high-traffic. Its the amount of noise vs signal. Lists like LKML > tend to have a lot of signal in that traffic. While unfortunately lists like > fedora-devel have a lot of noise, that drives off the type of people who > could handle the traffic should it be all signal. Even still its hard to > keep up, and READ that much email. Agreed. Maybe we could take a more proactive approach towards off-topic posts, trolls and "what's a grub?" kinds of threads? The GCC guys are very zelant in keeping the gcc@ list clear of homework requests and other dumb questions. And they've even learnt to do that in a politely way instead of pissing off all the newbies. Just grep the gcc list archives for the word "gcc-help".
Maybe an introductory email (with rules) be sent upon subscription to a list, and standard responses to the type of unwanted message you described be developed, so that those familiar to the list can just copy and paste as a response. -- Fedora Core 6 and proud -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
