Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

sm-discuss - Re: [SM-Discuss] list spammage by team-internal discussions

sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Public SourceMage Discussion List

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: "Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] list spammage by team-internal discussions
  • Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 15:13:43 +0200

Arwed von Merkatz wrote :

> On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 10:56:45AM +0200, Karsten Behrmann wrote:
> > Hi everyone!
> > I was just wondering if sm-discuss ought to be the "bazaar" place for
> > all discussion, even the team-internal that most other people would
> > not find too interesting (such as "I've done a quick search and these are
> > a few TODOs I've seen in the ISO generation code"), or if those should
> > be moved to seperate mailing lists.
> >
> > If I remember my history lessons right, we supposedly once had seperate
> > lists
> > for grimoire and sorcery, which were then merged into sm-discuss.
>
> There were grimoire, sorcery and general sm-discuss which were merged.
> There just wasn't enough seperate traffic back then and most people
> subscribed to all lists anyway, which lead to lots of cross-posting.
>
> > There seem to be three reasonable possibilities to me:
> > - Create seperate lists for teams with bunches of boring internae to
> > discuss
> > - Send to sm-discuss and prefix Subject: with "{teamname}" (or something)
> > - Do reply-to-all's (not a good thing, IMHO)
>
> I think the overall traffic on sm-discuss is still low enough to keep
> such discussions on the general list, so I'd vote for the prefix option.
>
> --
> Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux
> developer
>
> http://www.sourcemage.org
> _______________________________________________
> SM-Discuss mailing list
> SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/sm-discuss
>
>

I acctually like to follow all the interesting stuff from all teams WITHOUT
subscribing to yaml(yet another mailing list).

--
Andrew "ruskie" Levstik
Source Mage GNU/Linux Games grimoire guru

Key id = 9A5117F8
Key fingerprint = 6731 FEF2 99A8 4672 5962 69AB 3DAF DA67 9A51 17F8




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page