On Thursday 10 October 2002 17:29, Anders Johansson wrote:
100 mails per day isn't really much. Most you can skip because they're in a thread you're not interested in. And most mailers have very good search functions.
Besides, many many people say that SLE is a great list because it's a place where they can 'lurk' and get info on problems they have, used to have, know someone who have, or might one day get.
I think it would be a loss if that were to go away, but maybe that's just me
Nope. Not just you. That's also what I like about this list, and about the Techwr-l list and the OpenOffice [Users] list. They're active. Enough people post enough queries and responses that it's worth checking every day... sometimes many times in a day. There's always something going on, and if two or three threads are boring to me, there'll be at least that many active ones that are interesting. As well, there's enough activity that there'll be several opinions about most questions and answers, and often there'll be enlightening discussions about the "whys" of the different opinions. The KDE list is quite slow, and while it sometimes has useful exchanges, there are long dry spells. Even there, people are telling other people to piss off and take their X questions to an X list. Given how closely KDE is tied to X, and how many people (especially new ones) don't understand where the lines are... well, I just don't find that approach very useful or helpful. I don't learn a lot from the KDE list. I learn a lot from this one. (Although, sometimes you can't tell from my dumb questions...) /kevin ** DIR-ty DEEDS, and they're DONE dirt cheap. (Sing it, now...)