Re: [Meta] Smart People "Leaving" Linux-IL

From: Ira Abramov (Lists-Linux-IL_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Mon 16 Aug 2004 - 16:30:42 IDT


Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Mon, 16 Aug:
> Hi all!
>
> I noticed a trend when talking to some people face to face, and that is that
> many of them (and I'm referring to smart, expert, even full-fledged hacker
> people) stop reading the Linux-IL mailing list after a while. Their reasons
> vary. Some of the things I heard:
>
> 1. Linux-IL is the core of too many flame-wars.
>
> 2. Linux-IL has a low signal-to-noise ratio.

3. there are too many meta-discussions about splitting the list or
moving it around or changing its sex. folds into above point, but leqads
a life of its own.

> Sometimes conversations will be moved there as well from different mailing
> list.

that works for PHPbb maybe, not EZMLM or whatever we are using these
days.

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