On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > Why not closing linux-dvb (and video4linux) and transferring the currently > subscribed users to linux-media automatically? Can I offer my opinions to differ? First, I'm only subscribed to -dvb in order to post, yet still I haven't posted what I originally planned to post before unsubscribing until another device fails to work. Luckily the video4linux list was impossible to access (even the archives needed subsciption, furrfu). Anyway, soon after the creation of -media, I saw that the crossposts from v4linux were of no interest to me (I'm only interested in delivery of already-digital payloads, and am not concerned with webcams, analogue radio or TV, remote controls, and so on) -- since then I've skipped something like 2/3 of the posts on -media, and today, I wouldn't want it to appear in my mailbox. But that's just my interest. Also, I seem to recall that one intent of -media was to focus on developer interest, as the initial posts revealed, which also frees developers with better things to do than to explain how to, for example, get a list of channels, or stream a particular channel and be bothered by beginner or simple questions that could be answered by those without developer abilities. Like me. Anyway, it's no big deal to me. I'm used to how the one FreeBSD -multimedia list covers everything including sound, yet typically gets fewer posts in a week than -dvb could see in a day, and I can't see myself investing in another DVB-type receiver soon until DVB-S2 support gets properly rounded out and 100% reliable for all `experimental'-tagged devices, so I'm quite content to browse the list just as I skim the kernel list, or peer in on a few dozen other BSD- type lists whenever I feel like it. yerz, barry bouwsma off to answer a newbie question next -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
