proposal: mailing list reorganization

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 22:39 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 11 January 2007 22:31, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> > What's the problem with high-traffic lists?  Today, almost anybody can
> > afford the bandwidth and any half decent MUA can group by threads and
> > apply powerful filters on the fly.
ACK.

> Its not the high-traffic.  Its the amount of noise vs signal.  Lists like LKML 
> tend to have a lot of signal in that traffic.  While unfortunately lists like 
> fedora-devel have a lot of noise, that drives off the type of people who 
> could handle the traffic should it be all signal.  Even still its hard to 
> keep up, and READ that much email.

Well, IMO the real problem with the Fedora lists is not signal/noise
it's "miss communication", primarily caused by people not getting mails,
because 
* they can't be subscribed to all lists.
* they don't know were to post to.
* cross-posting.
* some lists are closed
* "reply-to's being tweaked
...

So instead of inventing new lists, I would suggest to
redefine/reconsider the purpose of existing lists and to close down
several of them.

Ralf