On Sun, Jan 18, 2009, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Well, I recieved 3 contra and about 30 pro mails for what I've done.
Presumably with my suggestion of mailing -project, and mentionning this
in the developers news you might have reached even more people and
received more "pro" mails, and you wouldn't have received my "contra"
mail. ;-)
> 2. The readers of mailing lists who show activity problems are
> most probably and will not read -project or -devel so I
> would not have reached them = I would have failed my basic
> intention to reach problematic list.
But they might read debian-news?
> 3. I want to trigger discussion about my specific interpretation
> of the list activity on the according list. What would you
> suggest to approach this without spamming some lists that
> perhaps does not need this trigger?
As I suggested already, announce your efforts on a widely read channel;
-project + -news, or -devel-announce if this is important.
> 4. According to spam: As a side effect I've detected about 4500
> Spam mails in our archive. Do you consider sending one single
> mail to about 30 list as excusable if I might help out to clean
> up the archive from this mails as a punishment I deserve for
> this misuse?
Eh :)
>> I've gotten basically the same template 12 times.
> Thanks for your obviosely high activity in Debian for subscribing
> 12 lists.
Well you make it sound like it's a large number; these are relatively
common lists:
devel, project, vote
some important ones for some aspects of the project:
security, release, newmaint, testing, qa, policy, legal[*]
and personal choices related to my interests:
desktop, python
I wouldn't be surprized if some hundreds of DDs are subscribed to >= 15
Debian lists. (I've been subscribed or am subscribed to ~80 alioth
lists BTW and expect it to be the same for a bunch of other DDs as well.)
Cheers,
[*] Yeah I know
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