Re: dragonfly-announce?

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> On Sun, January 6, 2008 4:06 am, Bill Hacker wrote:
>
>
> > Opinion from the 'cheap seats' - I check ~user, ~kernel, and ~commits
> > every day or two. ~commits is lower traffic than the average
> > devel/support mailing list, and the other two far, far less yet.
> >
> > Mind - usually solid stuff - very low-noise.
> >
> > So - what defines 'low-traffic' then? One message per week? per month?
>
> I don't mean low-traffic as in absolute message count, but low-traffic in
> that there's very few messages that don't affect everyone.
>
> Much of the user@/kernel@/commits@ discussion is about things that don't
> affect day-to-day use, and there's no reason to force people to parse
> everything else.

I don't disagree in general - but what I'm pointing to is that with as few posts 
per-day on other-than ~d.commits as we have now, there isn't much to have to 
parse anyway. And given any reasonably-sane newsreader pullign 'Subject:' 
headers, neither force nor even much time or b/w consumed.

FWIW, anyone NOT tracking ~d.commits, at least to scan subjects, could get the 
(false, IMNSHO) impression that the project had stalled.

That impression has historically attracted trolls and 'noise' postings = 
something DFLY has been remarkably free of lately.

The 'Subject:' line seems to do all we need, eg 'HEADS UP', 'ANNOUNCEMENT', 
'..HAMMER..' or such....

JM2CW...

Bill