George Prowse posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:44:31 +0000:
> Having organised several Gentoo UK meetings I would like to be advised if > anyone has a problem; especially if they dont come or have no idea when, > where or what they are. Top posting lost the context. Anyway... As I read the upline, the original point made had nothing to do about UK meetings in particular, that was just an example. The point made was that the purpose of this feature is to get out vital "do this if you don't want your system broken when you upgrade" type news. Folks that want announcements of meetings and that sort of thing can subscribe to GWN -- that's what it's for. If this feature starts getting used for that, then folks will start ignoring it, because the SNR is too low to be of any use for the intended purpose. Nothing against UK meetings, or /any/ meetings, for that matter. The place to get that sort of news is GWN. GLEP 42 is, and should remain, different, as proposed, and in both my opinion and that of the original poster that had the misfortune of bringing up the UK meetings as what was supposed to be an off-hand example, and apparently hitting a sore spot. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
