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Re: List traffic

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> — 2010-05-15T06:38:32Z

On Sat, 15 May 2010, Jaime Casanova wrote:

> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> wrote:
>>
>> And IMHO, that is as much a fault of the 'old timers' on the lists as the
>> newbies ... if nobody redirects / loosely enforces the mandates of the
>> various lists, newbies aren't going to learn to post to more appropriate
>> ones ...
>>
>
> oh! yeah! that's easy... you say: hey maybe that list is better for
> your question... and suddenly you're a piece of crap that should never
> answer a mail
>
> most people are not prepared to understand the concept of more than
> one list for project...

Apparently you don't use very many large projects ... FreeBSD has 20+ 
lists, dedicated to various aspects of both end user and developer ... I 
imagine Linux has *as many if not more* ... MySQL, if memory servers, has 
a half dozen or more ... etc ...

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