[KLUG Members] KLUG List FAQ

[Patrick Stockton]

Do we need 7 lists?

At the rate by which we seem to be adding and modifying our lists we'll soon
have a specialized list for every topic we can come up with and then negate
the need for the members list.

As a rule of thumb LUG lists generate a lot of e-mail.  The Davis, CA LUG
was known to generate 100 messages a day before lunch at times.

The creation of the hardware list is particularly troublesome to me.  For
example which list should the question "How do I configure my ADUPTEC
Ultra/Super/Gigantic/Wide 33/66/99 SCSI RAID Controler card under Mandrake
7.1?"

Now the original post should probably go to the members list since it's a
configuration question.  But what if I've only been using Linux for 3 weeks,
does that make it a newbie question?  Now what if someone who thinks
ADUPTEC's boards and thier driver support sucks might think that switching
controler cards is what I should do, so would that response go to the
Advocacy (formerly the taste's great/less filing list) List or the hardware
discuss list?

I think you can see where I'm going with this.  I see the members list as
the forum by which members of KLUG can discuss what ever topic they feel is
important enough to discuss.  Seven lists seems a tad excessive.

My dos pesos.


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Bridleman" <listmaster@kalamazoolinux.org>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 4:26 PM
Subject: [KLUG Members] KLUG List FAQ


> Greetings everyone to the first of what will probably be a monthly KLUG
list FAQ.
>
> The purpose of the FAQ will be to remind everyone of our list guidelines
and which lists are available. We encourage everyone to think about what
list would be most appropriate for their message.
>
> KLUG currently has the following lists available:
>   Members    - The main KLUG mailing list
>   Novices    - A list for Linux beginners to ask questions
>   Phpsig     - Discussion of PHP web programming
>   Speakers   - Speakers and presentation topics
> The following list has been renamed to, hopefully, better reflect the
purpose of the list:
>   Advocacy   - *Formerly OS-discuss* - Pro's & cons of operating systems
> (Sorry to those whose email filters we have broke).
>
> AND we also have two new lists to announce today:
>   Hardware   - A list for hardware discussions
>   Inschool   - A list for the Linux in schools project
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