Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jan 1999 18:40:51 +0100 (MET) | From | (Guest section DW) | Subject | Re: linux-kernel's extremely slow turnaround time |
| |
From: Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>
> Convince David Miller that for linux-kernel being an order > of magnitude faster is more important than having an order > of magnitude less junk.
I get enough junk. An order of magnitude more would be very bad.
Probably my original text was clear enough, but Alan quoted such a short fragment that some now misunderstand the intention.
In the good old days we had newsgroups linux.* Such a system has many advantages: The infrastructure already exists to handle very large volumes of news, and has a response time that is an order of magnitude better than the present mail-based system. Secondly, one has news readers that know about selecting authors and topics, killing threads, ignoring articles that were posted to several groups and have been read already. The current mail based system on the other hand will send me the same message twice if it is sent to both linux-kernel and linux-scsi.
So, a very fast and user-friendly system was replaced by a slow and user-unfriendly system. That was a pity. Of course there was a reason for the change - people have quoted the increased risk of receiving spam once one's email address appears in a net post; also the increased amount of junk in a newsgroup.
I think that the advantages of a newsgroup outweigh the disadvantages. (And it is easy to make posting a little bit difficult if the group is moderated and one has to subscribe to linux-kernel first before posts are accepted.)
Andries
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |