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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