2001-12-20 07:02:03

by Benjamin LaHaise

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Subject: proposal: feed smaller mailing lists into linux-kernel, add linux-kernel-core and linux-kernel-bugs

Hello Dave,

In light of some of the earlier comments in the various threads, I'd like to
start feeding postings from linux-mm and linux-aio back into linux-kernel
to encourage more widespread distribution of highly specific mumblings to the
community at large. Along this lines, I also would like a couple of more
specific mailing lists to be added: linux-kernel-core and linux-kernel-bugs
to help readers in classifying the traffic. Thoughts?

-ben
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2001-12-20 07:32:21

by David Miller

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Subject: Re: proposal: feed smaller mailing lists into linux-kernel, add linux-kernel-core and linux-kernel-bugs


Absolutely no way. Forwarding "all the little other lists" into
linux-kernel is not going to make things better.

2001-12-20 08:11:50

by Matti Aarnio

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Subject: Re: proposal: feed smaller mailing lists into linux-kernel, add linux-kernel-core and linux-kernel-bugs

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 02:01:32AM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> Hello Dave,
>
> In light of some of the earlier comments in the various threads, I'd like to
> start feeding postings from linux-mm and linux-aio back into linux-kernel
> to encourage more widespread distribution of highly specific mumblings to the
> community at large. Along this lines, I also would like a couple of more
> specific mailing lists to be added: linux-kernel-core and linux-kernel-bugs
> to help readers in classifying the traffic. Thoughts?

If there *really* are people who want to get it all,
we could create a digested linux-all list.

On the other hand, they can do like I do: subscribe
all interesting into separate addresses (aliases),
which go into separate folders.

As things are, people who are using Yahoo or Hotmail,
or whatever Mail-ISP thing out there are usually
being bounced (and removed) because of the very high
traffic volume at linux-kernel overflowing their
mailboxes already. (Digest won't help them there.)

> -ben
> --
> Fish.

/Matti Aarnio -- co-postmaster of vger.kernel.org
occasional linux kernel hacker

2001-12-20 11:47:37

by Rik van Riel

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Subject: Re: proposal: feed smaller mailing lists into linux-kernel, add linux-kernel-core and linux-kernel-bugs

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

> Along this lines, I also would like a couple of more specific mailing
> lists to be added: linux-kernel-core and linux-kernel-bugs to help
> readers in classifying the traffic. Thoughts?

I'd much rather have people add specific tags to the
subject of their emails, like:

[BUG] [PATCH] [RFC] [ANN] etc....

cheers,

Rik
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