[forum] communication

Michel Dänzer forum@XFree86.Org
23 Mar 2003 16:33:00 +0100


On Son, 2003-03-23 at 13:16, Vadim Plessky wrote: 
> On Sunday 23 March 2003 11:02, Craig Groeschel wrote:
> |  >  - Lack of participation on render@xfree86.org.
> |
> |  RIP.
> |
> |  Why _was_ the render list folded back into the xfree86 list?
> |  One day I'm reading about trapezoid rasterization and the next
> |  day my mailbox is full of other people's XF86Config files.  I
> |  was surprised.  Generally discussions become more focused, not
> |  less so.  (Imagine folding comp.os.linux.* back into the
> |  original comp.os.linux.)
> 
> Reasons to close RENDER list are unclear to me.
> There were 200 participants for that list, or so.
> <xfree86@xfree86.org> is very high-traffic list, and I am not interested in 
> most of the mails posted to that list.
> So, I unsibscibed from <xfree86@xfree86.org> list after some testing period.
> I just couldn't stand a lot of mails which are off-topic for me.

Why do you compare render@xfree86.org to xfree86@xfree86.org and not
devel@xfree86.org ?


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast