mandag 2. april 2001, 17:16, skrev Victor R. Cardona:
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:22:12AM +1000, Paul C.Leopardi wrote:
Hi, has anyone thought of ways to improve this list? For each of February and March there was an average of more than 100 messages a day on suse-linux-e
The list used to be much busier a few years ago. Anyway, someone brings up the mailing-list traffic "issue" every few months. Thus far, nobody has been able to agree on anything.
May I suggest one way? I'm also a member of a group discussing arcview (a GIS application from ESRI (www.esri.com)(arcview-l)). On this group one can ask for help on using arcview. If anyone can answer this request they send this to the person putting forth the question on his/her private e-mail adress. Then this person will SUM the answers for the group and post the sumary. One way to reduce this kind of traffic (i.e questions for help on various issues with SuSE linux), is to use this way of doing things. More "normal" discussions could continue as it does now. The success or failure of such a system will ofcourse depend on the users ability and will to comply, and on their ability to differenciate between what is a request for help and what is a topic for disscussion. Regards Lars Forseth -- -------------------------- Lars Forseth http://www.uio.no/~forseth MS WIN > /dev/null TUX rules --------------------------