Re: Shutting down some Hurd mailing lists?

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:24:41AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 29. September 2009 21:32:51 schrieb Thomas Schwinge:

> >   * help-hurd: mostly unused, shut down.  Forward to bug-hurd.
> >   Rationale: people seeking help about using the Hurd end up on the
> >   debian-hurd mailing list in the vast majority of cases, all others
> >   can be served on bug-hurd (they are to be CCed when answering, so
> >   they need not even be subscribed).
> 
> This is a separation I'd keep, though. If we manage to get the Hurd
> users more active again, there will likely be a need for that list
> again. 

Won't work -- never did, never does, never will. More than half of the
posts on help-hurd should actually go to bug-hurd; and more than half of
the posts that should go to help-hurd, go to bug-hurd... Other projects
with separate lists get simiar experience: it only increases management
overhead, causes fragmentation, confusion, and redundancy.

And we can always think about splitting them up again, when the traffic
really becomes a problem...

-antrik-