Moderate this list?

[Joshua Penix]

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 20:29, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> So, I think people want the lists open, thats fine, but then 
> people get what they get, which at least currently is cacophony 
> on fedora-devel-list, fedora-test-list, and fedora-list all 3 
> lists of which are almost indistinguishable from one another 
> contentwise.  I wonder if they'd make good bayesian filter data 
> for spamassassin though.  ;o)

I say that everyone needs to just be patient.  Fedora has received a
bunch of attention due to three Slashdot articles within 45 days, and of
course due to RedHat's public announcement of it as a migration path.

As a result I'm sure there was a flood of mailing list subscriptions,
many of which probably belong to the knee-jerk politicians who just like
to complain about change and anything that an "evil commercial company"
like RedHat does.  I used to sit in the #fedora channel on FreeNet
before the RedHat merge, and it was a quiet place with maybe 30 people
in it at any given time.  On the day the merge hit Slashdot, it jumped
into the hundreds and filled with endless FAQs and pointless rehashing
of the same dead issues.

Over time all this will settle back down.  The politicos will find a new
cause and unsubscribe.  The people who refuse to RTFM will eventually
get frustrated and move on.  The remaining serious Fedora users will
form into a good community and these mailing lists will be one of the
stones in its foundation.

Meanwhile, mail filtering is indeed your friend. :^)

--Josh