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Re: List traffic

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> — 2010-05-14T14:38:39Z

On Fri, 14 May 2010, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

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>> ... is there a reason why, other the fact that we don't do now, that we
>> can't just put in a restriction against cross posting altogether?
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> Because that would be shooting ourselves in the foot. Cross-posting
> is often desirable. If we had a clearer distinction of list topics, I
> might support such a move, but we don't, so I can't.

But, its the cross-posting, IMHO, that reduces the distinction ...

>> ... and, for those that have been here awhile, who "should know better",
>> why isn't there any self-management of this sort of stuff in the first
>> place?
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> What would you have us do?

Redirect users ... if user sends a query performance related question to 
-general, respond back with -general as the CC, To as -performance and a 
Reply-To header of -performance ... that way those on -general know that 
its been redirected, but *hopefully* users replying will honor the 
-performance redirect ...

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