David Freeman david_freeman@rocketmail.com writes:
d) Alug for general LINUX help and chat, ALUG-announce (announcements only) and then secret-admirers (for chat about hacking type stuff like
No, I think I'm going to side with Andrew here and leave the alug list itself alone. We ought to get -announce back up and maybe add -help or -newbies.
News != good. to much risk of spamming.
It's more that in order to allow news posts to forward to the list, we'd need to stop checking for posters being valid list members. There may be a way around this, but I need to look.
- upto date archives so people can view the list via the web.
4 surely? Are the archives broken?
MJ Ray wrote:
David Freeman david_freeman@rocketmail.com writes:
d) Alug for general LINUX help and chat, ALUG-announce (announcements only) and then secret-admirers (for chat about hacking type stuff like
No, I think I'm going to side with Andrew here and leave the alug list itself alone. We ought to get -announce back up and maybe add -help or -newbies.
I'm with Mark and Savs, we need announce back up (even though I didn't notice it had gone away!) and a -help or -newbies.
Adam
Adam wrote:
I'm with Mark and Savs, we need announce back up (even though I didn't notice it had gone away!) and a -help or -newbies.
Count me in with Adam, MJR and Sav, the return of -announce and leave ALUG alone (I'm enjoying the recent threads albeit from a distance). Not sure that -newbie/help is really necessary.
Just my 2p worth.
Cheers, BJ
On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 10:18:40PM +0100, John Woodard wrote:
Count me in with Adam, MJR and Sav, the return of -announce and leave ALUG alone (I'm enjoying the recent threads albeit from a distance). Not sure that -newbie/help is really necessary.
Just my 2p worth.
I'm not sure that the argument about the cost of downloading mail from the really applies. The busiest day I could find was 4th May when I received 159Kb from the list. Assuming a download speed of 3Kb/sec (56 modem) this is 52 seconds. Even paying local call charges this is not a large sum.
Perhaps more to the point is the time taken for people to read their mail. If we try to send each person only what he or she is interested in it would get impossibly complicated, but if we use the subject line to mark clearly what a message is about (and change it when a thread wanders off) then this would be a help.
That said, I am happy with the proposal for an announce list, I just do see the point of fragmenting the main list any further.
Steve.
I Wrote:
That said, I am happy with the proposal for an announce list, I just do see the point of fragmenting the main list any further.
And, of course, I meant to say:
That said, I am happy with the proposal for an announce list, I just don't see the point of fragmenting the main list any further.
Steve.
--- MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
David Freeman david_freeman@rocketmail.com writes:
d) Alug for general LINUX help and chat, ALUG-announce
(announcements
only) and then secret-admirers (for chat about hacking type stuff
like
No, I think I'm going to side with Andrew here and leave the alug list itself alone. We ought to get -announce back up and maybe add -help or -newbies.
Does that mean ALUG can be for people to use for general stuff like recently?
News != good. to much risk of spamming.
It's more that in order to allow news posts to forward to the list, we'd need to stop checking for posters being valid list members. There may be a way around this, but I need to look.
ok, but I don't think news would be the best way of doing it.
- upto date archives so people can view the list via the web.
4 surely? Are the archives broken?
No, they just don't update in real time and thus there is a small lag.
Thanks
D
-- MJR
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