Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
Instead of having 75% of the mails on the suse-linux-e ! mailinglist tagged, I would prefer either one of these:
1) Having this mailinglist beeing about (SuSE) Linux in general with a *small* amount of OT postings.
2) Having this mailinglist beeing about (SuSE) Linux in general with all OT postings on another mailinglist.
I would rather use the bandwith on serving people who wants to use our ftp-server.
It'd be interesting to know what the breakdown is between SuSE Linux-specific posts, Microsoft-related posts, and other OT posts. My guess is something like 70/20/10. There's another way to look at the OT posts: this list discusses how to use a computer that's running SuSE Linux. (Remarkably few OT's are about RedHat, Debian, etc.). The people who can solve Linux-related problems often can solve other related problems. My own experience is that the number of SuSe-related but uninteresting (to me) posts far exceeds the number of )T but uninteresting (to me) posts. I think that any attempt to break off a chunk of the list for OT items would fail because the new list would be too unfocused. All this is subjective, of course. Paul