From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266301AbUBDFQN (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 00:16:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266307AbUBDFQN (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 00:16:13 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:28374 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266301AbUBDFQM (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 00:16:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 21:13:33 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: "raymond jennings" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Create a message board? Message-Id: <20040203211333.2ae26042.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 17:08:20 -0800 "raymond jennings" wrote: | Would a message board based forum help to alleviate some of the mailing list | traffic by keeping information exchanges thread local (no pun intended)? | This way the developers specializing in a certain portion of the kernel | aren't swamped with information about something totally irrelevant, thus | they can focus on what they know. Example: File system programmers getting | messages relating to sound cards. | | I am interested in any feedback on this idea. Actually I'd prefer fewer places to look instead of more places. BTW, there is a linux-fsdevel mailing list for filesystem development. -- ~Randy