Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (448 mails)

[Bob Vickers <bobv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is an under-utilised list called LinuxManagers, housed at
http://www.linuxmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxmanagers

This is for general Linux management questions (not just SuSE) but it has
much less traffic than SuSE-security. It is much more efficient in terms
of bandwidth because the protocol is that responses are sent to the sender
who then summarises for the list. There is a Tru64 equivalent which is
brilliant, and I believe there is a Solaris one too.

So we could direct straying newbies there, and maybe the SuSE mailing list
page should include an advert too.

The problem with another SuSE list is that many questions are
not tied to a particular distribution.

Bob

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Jeremy Buchmann wrote:

>
> I've noticed that most of the OT traffic has to do with admin-type
> problems like setting up mail, using the Suse admin tools, etc.  Would
> it be possible for Suse to setup a new list like "suse-admin" that would
> be a resource for non-security administrative questions?  suse-linux-e
> is just to busy and full of "desktop-related" chit-chat, and the rest of
> the lists don't seem to apply.  That way, when someone is OT, we can
> just say "Please post to suse-admin" instead of "This list is for
> security, bug off."
>
> --Jeremy
>


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