Re: signal-to-noise on d-d-l

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 15:54, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Murray Cumming">
> 
> > Maybe we need some way to make sure that people subscribe to that list
> > when they subscribe to desktop-devel-list. I think one reason that people
> > post announcements to desktop-devel-list is because they know people are
> > not subscribed to gnome-announce. Creating another announcement list might
> > not change that.
> 
> People post developer announcements to d-d-l because that's where the
> developers are. gnome-announce-list is *not* a developer-oriented list. If
> we had gnome-hackers-announce, I think the convention would be to post
> developer announcements to both it and gnome-hackers. So if you can't handle
> or aren't interested in the general cross-project discussion, you sub to the
> announce list. It would be important and informative enough to do so. For
> developers.

Maybe, though many people won't see a clear distinction between normal
announcements and developer announcements. But announcements are only a
small part of the noise anyway.

At least threading works better now.

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Murray Cumming
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