Dale posted on Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:43:43 -0500 as excerpted:

> It always seemed to me that people want to send threads to -project for
> them to just go away.  Once a thread goes to -project, it just whithers
> on the vine and nothing much happens.  There may be a need for -project
> but if almost no one is going to be there, there is no point sending
> threads to it.  Maybe developers should be required to subscribe to
> -project so that even if a thread is sent there, they still get to see
> the postings and deal with the issues that are being raised.

I think that was the point.  Having the list and telling people the topic 
belongs there is the polite way of telling them their output's better 
directed to /dev/null (which is of course the the geeky *ix way of saying 
"shutup already!"), without actually restricting someone's right to make 
their point... just that they might as well be posting to their private 
diary for the number of others that'll actually read it.


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