On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 10:29 -0400, Tom Rivers wrote: > On 7/28/2008 10:04 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > Again, ethical/political/etc questions have no place in an ML that > > -should- be dedicated to users who seek help. I doubt that they even > > have place in -testing and/or -devel. > > > > I've been subscribed to fedora-* more-or-less since FC2. > > For the first time in years I'm thinking about unsubscribing > > I've been on these lists from the early days as well. I've seen some > interesting discussions, however I was never under the impression that > this was as big of a problem as some people seem to portray it. Does > anyone have any metrics on how many of these "inappropriate" threads > there truly are in relation to how many are "appropriate"? I think it > would help make this issue much more clear. For example, if we are > talking about less than 1% of all posts are "inappropriate", then that > is a heck of a lot different than if it is 35%. Similarly, if there are > say 10,000 posts in a month, 1% is a bigger problem than if there are > only 100 posts per month. > > So, do we have some actual numbers or is it just a "gut feel"? > > > Tom I don't have solid numbers, but at least according to my gmail trash contents, around ~1/4-1/5 of the posts that were sent to -users between, say, Tuesday and Saturday belonged to one of the 4 "GPL" threads. ... And even if I'm wrong by an order of magnitude, and we are only talking about 10% of all the -users traffic, given the fact that these threads are off-topic to being with, this is way-too-much. - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
