Infrastructure status, 2008-08-19 UTC 0200

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Fri Aug 22 22:08:15 UTC 2008


On Friday 22 August 2008 19:43:56 Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> > I do find this attitude strange.  There are maybe 15 messages per week
> > from announce, and I can skin through and this 'I need that update' or
> > 'those don't affect me', which saves me a good bit of time.
>
> It sounds like a security-only announce list is needed then.  Checking
> 780 messages a year just to make sure that there aren't any security
> warnings strikes me as a bit much for most users.
>
> (Sure, I have no problem scanning the list, but non-technical users
> will only be interested in emergency messages with detailed
> instructions of what they need to do.)
>
Hey c'mon.  Scenario -

4 messages from that list?  Wow!  Scan subject lines - no, none are security 
so I don't care.  'Mark all messages as read'.  Big deal!

Then I come to this list to read the drivel.

Anne
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