Taming the mailing lists?

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 05:43:04PM -0400, William Hooper wrote:
> 
> Charles Curley said:
> 
> > One thing that would help: please put a short mnemonic of the version
> > of Fedora and relevant package(s) to which you refer in your subject
> > line. e.g.:
> >
> > FC2T3: Squid x.y.z Crashes
> > FC1 as updated: OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 Problem
> 
> For one thing, FC Test questions and FC release questions don't belong on
> the same list anyway :-)

Well, that isn't clear. The descriptions at
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/communicate/ are rather
terse.

By way of illustration, here's a boundary situation: I've just loaded
the latest FCT, and I have a question regarding setting up a
particular application, but the question isn't specific to the test
release. Do I ask on the test list or the general list?

My answer is: on the general list, because I don't believe the
question is specific to the current test release, and the audience is
wider on the general list.

And in any case, adding the mnemonic is harmless.

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