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Re: The meeting on Wednesday



In message <1DBD4DB3E69@hagiga.jct.ac.il> you write:
|On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Amos Shapira wrote:
|
|> I split might be another good way to handle a flood.  But I would
|> strongly suggest to wait and see what's the trend and then split along
|> the right lines.  If you do this just on assumptions which might be
|> prooved to be wrong you might starve one or (worse) both lists from
|> good traffic.
|maybe base the split on subjects and not expertease?

I'd stress the "maybe" a little more.  What if someone can't configure
his X11?  Is that a hardware or a software question?  What about bad
disk blocks?  What's "misc".

What about splitting things to "expert" and "newbie"?

I'm not saying that your suggestion for a plit is totally out of the
question, but my point is that, *currently*, we don't know enough to
decide how to split, and if we do it wrong then the list will die.

Just let's let things flow and see what should be done (this is the
Zen aproach, isn't it? :-).

Cheers,

--Amos

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