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On 19 July 2010 01:27, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Dale posted on Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:43:43 -0500 as excerpted: |
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>> It always seemed to me that people want to send threads to -project for |
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>> them to just go away. Once a thread goes to -project, it just whithers |
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>> on the vine and nothing much happens. There may be a need for -project |
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>> but if almost no one is going to be there, there is no point sending |
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>> threads to it. Maybe developers should be required to subscribe to |
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>> -project so that even if a thread is sent there, they still get to see |
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>> the postings and deal with the issues that are being raised. |
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> I think that was the point. Having the list and telling people the topic |
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> belongs there is the polite way of telling them their output's better |
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> directed to /dev/null (which is of course the the geeky *ix way of saying |
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> "shutup already!"), without actually restricting someone's right to make |
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> their point... just that they might as well be posting to their private |
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> diary for the number of others that'll actually read it. |
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Yeah, that's exactly a thread that belongs to -project and not -dev. |
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Best Regards |
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Piotr Jaroszyński |