Jon Pennington tapped away at the keyboard with:
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 09:02:43AM +0200, Maurizio Firmani wrote:
this mailing list has reached an excellent traffic. I usually read the post in the evening. There are about 200 messages a day and I cannot read them all. I cannot be of any help and I cannot learn a lot because to read all the messages requires a couple of hours (I am not a native english speaker). The quick solution which comes to mind is to split this mailing list into two branch: one for beginners and one for advanced users. Other solutions are welcome especially from SuSE.
This has come up before, and it is not practical. The biggest appeal of this list is the broad range of people that subscribe; everyone from new (first-time) users to people like me who've been around Linux for a few years to a select few that have been using UNIX since before the PDP-7 was obsolete. If you break up the list, you lose the variety, and you lose the value.
Whadda you mean the 7's obsolete! :-) I agree with your point about the audience. This list is, as far as I can tell fairly good at setting Subject: headers. Perhaps SuSE could set up a mirrored news server so that we can use a newsreader to read the messages. I feel much more comfortable with a newsreader interface (nn) for such a volume of articles. I'm trying to figure out how to fake it locally; but leafnode isn't as amenable to accepting _local_ articles as is C News. (Or for that matter, probably INN.) -- Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning Perth, Western Australia -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq