On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 06:15:36 -0600, Jess Anderson wrote: > > > Even for a true geek, the volume of this list is crushing. > > It seems the initial expectation that the list would "calm down" has not > materialised. In a way that's a good thing, since it is indicative of > Fedora's popularity, but yes it is heavy going. Too heavy, IMnsHO. As a result I've had to delete stuff unread. And I'm used to high-volume mailing lists. (I choose to delete based on the subject line.) > > It's well past the time when the various Fedora lists should be > > reorganized into such departments as announce, setup/install, security, > > development, hardware, x-windows, and so forth. > > IME that just leads to more off-topic posting, since many can't seem to > (or don't bother trying to) figure out which is the appropriate list. Depends on how many lists you have. At lease a install list would be a "good thing" IMnsHO. > > In the meantime, I've found it *very* helpful to dump the emailed > > traffic to /dev/null > > Probably better to turn it off in the list prefs, rather than /dev/null > it. Cuts down unnecessary .Net traffic. *Confused* What do you mean by "emailed traffic" in this case? It's obviously not the messages to the list... Krikket
