On 20-Sep-01 Martyn Drake wrote:
Hi,
What do people think about a hierarchy which follows something like:-
Announce - Announcements for all things Alug (meetings, etc.)
Makes sence to me we currently use main for this and if we are all dividing up the groups we need one central point to look at and subscribe to with very low posting numbers.
Main - Meetings discussion, Linux (installing/config)
I like this list
help/discussion, etc
Is not this Main's job as well as install issues and configuration
Social - BBQs a plenty, vaguley Linux related meets and greets, etc.
OK some people want to filter out sillyness.
Developers - discussion for any developers out there (coding, IDEs, etc)
Is not this as central to linux as playing with the config and more of a main list thing, if this is going to happen maybe a sysadmin list should exist.
Misc - anything else that doesn't fit into the above
I agree with the other thread that states that this is the social lists job
In summary I feel that an anounce list is a good idea, but other lists seems like over kill, do people rearly have such a problem with the band width that they want to divide the group into subgroups who only subscribe to one list or anouther?
I know not all of us have toll free internet but at least all our mails are plain text so the band width is not that bad. I fear it could go the way of manlug and have lists that have so few new subjects your almost intimidated to post anythink but replys for fear of being foolish.
so I vote that if we add anything (which I dont see why we should rearly) we should add an anounce list and not get wrapped up on this issue. That way alug remains friendly and highish bandwidth (a good thing in my opinion) with an anounce list for people who only want to know whats going on.
Well thats my thoughs
Regards to you all
Owen Synge
Date: 20-Sep-01 Time: 13:02:30