On 20/12/2020 21.45, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
Am So, 20. Dez, 2020 um 9:36 P. M. schrieb Carlos E. R. <>:
On 20/12/2020 20.45, Per Jessen wrote:
Simon Lees wrote:
I think there are many people on the users list who would be rather unhappy with that solution however, we fundamentally have 2 different groups of people who want and expect two very different things and i'm not sure how we can resolve that into 1 list
For eighteen years it worked quite well. I do not think that splitting our user community has improved on that.
I have been subscribed since January 2002 or earlier. The list had 40000 messages a year back then (compared to 12000 on 2019). That includes a lot of noise, methinks, not every post can be strictly on topic and supportive. But the thing is, with so much activity, someone finds the tidbit that finally helps the OP.
Probably also worth noting there were less mailing lists in general, so it's not like you could redirect anybody that wanted to discuss anything else anywhere else, because there wasn't any other place to go. I had an opportunity to go through A LOT of archives as part of migration, and I have to say I am impressed people didn't go on wild tangents nearly as often as users list manages to do nowadays, and we have an offtopic list now, so that really shouldn't be a problem people manage to notice ;)
Maybe many of us have /known/ each other for years and conversations strike easily ;-) I remember that there were some SuSE maintainers back then that with 40000 messages a year were capable of noticing and participate (fast) in a thread about whatever they maintained (posting an exact solution), and keep silent on almost everything else. Maybe they had a filter on some keywords alerting them. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)