On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 01:02 +0800, Roger Ye wrote: > I'm a newcomer to the maillist fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx, > just after only one day subscription, now I got scared, > by such a high traffic in this list, over 50 topics in only > one day! > > That's too many for me, I just want to get some smell > of the buzz in the community in my spare time, maybe > there's no such people/job, but justimagine there's a > guy who has the job to monitor this maillist, he has to > process one topic with an average of 10 mins. not mention > the number of message in each topic and the mind-switch > between quite a few topics. that's a terrible work! > > Therefore I think this mail list should get splitted up, > to several more specific lists, and people can freely > choose with list he/she want to subscribe. > and question makers can also post his question > to a more appropriate list to get a reply more quickly. > > Or maybe some rules should be setup that some > certain questions should be posted in the fedoraforum.org > instead of herein the maillist? > > On another side, does such high traffic here means > linux still has too many problems? I do think so, > > And it's also a problem that to get a working environment > people has to do, to learn too many OS related stuff. > but the fundamental should be that OS is just a platform > which help us to work, to make sothing, and to bring us > efficiency, but not a big part ordinary user should care a lot. > > I believe the linux community has a huge amount of users/ > developers, but we have so many distros, also for each > single app we can have several choices; again, but each of > them is not easy to get usable quickly, every user, geek or > regular user, need to do some work to get it to work, and > for each alternative we may have to different things or in > different ways to get them work. > > Is Linux too free to create so many incomplete variants? > should we have a centralized community like Eclipse one? > just look at the great conquence the Eclipse community > has bring to the Java world and to the industry. Why don't you change your preferences for the list to "digest"? You'll get a single message each day that's a digest of all of the messages that flew by that day. You can peruse them to your heart's content. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Brain: The organ with which we think that we think. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
