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Re: Separate Lists
On Sat, 09 Aug 1997 01:50:35 GMT, Stan Mocek wrote:
>On Sat, 09 Aug 97 00:08:10 +0300, Dominique Pivard <domi@kenavo.fi>
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 08 Aug 1997 at 10:48 AM you, axel hartmann
>><axelh@polysci.umass.edu>, said:
>>
>>>how about "Paul Khoury" and "general public"? That ought to reduce
>>>traffic significantly...
>>> ...sorry, no offense meant, but you've been
>>>extremely involved lately. ;)
>>
>>You're a bit unkind to Paul, his contribution to the list has been mostly
>>useful IMHO.
>
>I don't think Axel meant to be unkind to Paul, he did use a smiley.
>Paul recently has been the most active poster to this list, and
>there's nothing wrong with that. (Just sort your messages by author
>and you'll see what I mean.) ;-)
>
>>>In general, this list is still very managable imho. For instance, my
>>>interest being the TP701 would on its own never justify a list. Others
>>>(ie IT-Pros taking care of a fleet of TPs) would maybe prefer a split
>>>along the lines of OS's rather than models.
>>
>>I agree with you, there's no need to split the list. Many people are using
>>one TP and plan to buy a newer model, many use several operating systems
>>and so on.
>
>I don't see any need to split it either. I've got a few other lists
>that are much more active.
>
I guess it was a though, but everyone's right that there is no
real need to split the list. On the other list I belong to, developing
Linux for the XT, we probably need to split it because of too much
crosstalk (myself included, but not the main contributer :-> ).
Paul