From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263679AbUBDRFM (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:05:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263695AbUBDRFM (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:05:12 -0500 Received: from host-64-65-253-246.alb.choiceone.net ([64.65.253.246]:54708 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263679AbUBDRFF (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:05:05 -0500 Message-ID: <402126B3.7080005@tmr.com> Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 12:06:59 -0500 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: raymond jennings CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Create a message board? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. There are other mailing lists for subtopics. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979