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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: list suggestion!
To: dave@cs.curtin.edu.au (David Shirley)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:11:47 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <041c01c2e86a$870b3030$64070786@synack> from "David Shirley" at Mar 12, 2003 01:57:36 PM
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> No doubt you have all noticed that there is quite a lot of
> traffic on the linux-kernel ML. 
> 
> I had an idea. Why dont you split the list into a 2.4 list and a 2.5 list?
> 
> If this has already been suggested please dont hurt me :P

It's suggested about once every two months :-)

Seriously, the main problems with doing that are that:

* Most developers would end up subscribing to both lists anyway
* Some issues are common to both trees and would be posted to both
  lists, creating even more traffic.

John.
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