I agree completely, I have been subscribed to this list since version 5.3... and the list has always maintained it community like spirit.IMO this is another great advantage of SuSE... the tolerance of people discussing what they want, it lends itself to the close knit community without having to be worried about getting flamed to death because someone asks an obivious question. (As I've heard takes place on other linux lists) I really dont think this is a high traffice list, it does about 100 messages a day and for the most part they are usually informative to some degree (depending on where one is at, at the time). I'd say it all comes down to free speach, everyone here has the rite to post what they want, and usually the bs posts just get ignored, while the core discussions carry on. On a side note, I will say one thing that is a small problem is exact duplicate messages. I suspect this due to sending the mail with kmail. It might help if people check their mouse setting in K. The single click sometimes is too fast and I guess the message gets fired off twice. You can see this with messages sent by the same person at exactly the same time. even still, I can deal with that have fun rob Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Well, this list is like a group of friends...something like Cheers. When you come in they scream your name and bring you into the fold. It's always been like this. There is a lot of technical talk (shop talk), personal talk, arguements..etc. It's a very community list, not just a help list. It's been like this since the day I joined this list almost 3.5 years ago. It probably won't be changing anytime soon because if it did change then it would loose it's charm and the ability to be such a great place to pose questions. When your into this list and talking about SuSE Linux you learn a lot, but you do put up with something things. It's a bit like asking Grandpa for advice...you have to hear the story first before you get the info your looking for...and I personally wouldn't change a thing. It's just how is. It's why we use procmail ;)