Re: Splitting the mailing list up

From: Rico Secada <coolzone@it.dk>
Date: Sep 25, 2010, 21:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20100925231935.8fa0b946.coolzone@it.dk>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikHNhRTTvcpj_30fUBbxv8-qG9HfTTO+XkLJgam@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:05:12 +0000 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 21:00, Rico Secada <coolzone@it.dk> wrote:
> > The list receives a lot of traffic and it might be beneficial to
> > split things up.
> 
> Why is a lot of traffic a bad thing?

I didn't say it was a bad thing :)

I was looking at this from a "relevancy" point of view. Kinda like the way Debian or FreeBSD has split their lists up.

> E.g. if you don't want all the patch submissions you can just filter
> out PATCH.

That's one way to do it, but I think splitting things up is better.

Some people live on limited bandwidth and it takes time to download all emails, especially if you are subscribing to other mailing lists as well.

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