[KLUG Members] KLUG List FAQ

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>Do we need 7 lists?

Maybe, maybe not.

>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.

To join ANY list,  you must be on the members list.  That requirement will not
go away.

>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.

Yes, I agree.  And as a rule lots of people whine.  And, to be fair,  SIG lists
are good (such as phpsig and inschool) because some people are going to
legitimately NOT care, and messages on those lists may tend to be large.  We,
the broadband enlightened,  must also always remeber our brothers still held in
the grip of Sinister Analog.

>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?"

I think the lists may need better descriptions.  The above (IHMO) is not a
hardware question, and I'd post it to the members list.  Questions about CPU
fans, good 3d video cards, etc... should get posted to the hardware list.  And
if I wanted to post a message with a subject of "Why AMD Chips stink, and how
there benchmarks are a fraudulent wagon-load of cow dung :)" I'd post that to
the hardware list,  so I can enjoy the warmth of my flames without troubling a
couple of hundred people.

>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?  

You raise a legitimate question about the novice list.  I don't know what make
something a newbie question.  It might be polite for someone who doesn't know,
to ask what the best past to post a question is.  They could use the novice list
for that.

>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

Hardware.  Or if it is really about drivers, then on the members list.

Advocacy is for political/theological threads,  with "nothing" specific to do
with any problem.  It is where us socialists can take cheap pot shots at the
Eric Raymond libertarians, and vice versa.

>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.

Agree, but the other lists exists so that those of us with a high rant factor
can show respect for the more level-headed citizens.

All lists can be read by going to their archives.

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