Tor Sigurdsson wrote;
Why change how the list is handled ? Why not change how it's used ? Anyone here been on the hpux-adm list ? There, people only post questions and summaries to the questions. Discussions aren't that weel taken, and smalltalk on the list is flamed back to boogietown... Ethics are strict, without cramping it's users style. Works great :)
Isn't this just a discussion??
That way, if user X posts a question, users Y, Z, A and B post their replies directly to user X, and no CC's to the list. User X then compiles a summary to the solution of his/her problem, and posts it to the list.
This assumes that user X will take the time to compile that summary and post it back to the list. If he decided not to then the rest of the list would possibly miss out on all that good information.
This way, there would be build through time a big archive of problems and their solutions, easily searchable, and with that, user of the list would be obliged to search the archive before posting a question.
The archives are already there and growing???
Having said that, there could be created another list, called suse-linux-discussion-e or something, for those of 'us' that really need to have an opinion :-)
Another list????? Mark