[kde-doc-english]Flood of "old" messages in kde-doc-english

[Lauri Watts]

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On Saturday 12 October 2002 09.14, Pam R wrote:
> On Friday 11 October 2002 8:44 am, Éric Bischoff wrote:

> > On the long term, we'll have to think about the policy towards external
> > contributors (and especially towards people wanting to report
> > misspellings): 1) keep this list moderated as it currently is
> > 2) let this list open
> > 3) ask people to use the bug tracking system and stop posting to this
> > list 4) split the list in two: English writers and English proofreaders
> > (and take profit of that occasion to merge kde-docbook with this list) 5)
> > any possibility I didn't think about?
>
> As I see it the only real reason for moderating a list like this one is to
> cut out some of the spam; Éric, how many of the 119 messages were spam?

Apparently very few, although, quite a few of them had already been dealt with 
privately, after people realised their post hadn't got through to the list, 
thankfully.

> But even if 50% of them were rubbish, 119 un-approved messages in several
> months is less than one a day, which is such a low rate that I would vote
> for making the list open, even if only to avoid the embarrassment of
> blocking a message from David Faure for 5 months :-(

So long as it stays relatively light in spam, that's ok.  I think the "should 
the list be open" and "Should we encourage people to use bugzilla" are 
perhaps two different issues.

Malcolm votes for bugzilla, and so do I, mostly because I can assign things to 
a specific rseponsible person if there is one, and because it's so much 
harder to ignore, or just lose, requests for fixes.

> As to splitting the list between English writers & proofreaders, I would be
> against that as the proofreaders' mails can often be of interest to writers
> but with separate lists one would have to subscribe to both to be sure of
> not missing anything!

> For roughly the same reason, I would be in favour of merging the
> kde-docbook list into this one, presumably there's not that much traffic on
> kde-docbook?

To both those, I 100% agree.  kde-docbook is quite light on traffic, it goes 
weeks without anything at all, and then there might be an long thread or two 
on a single topic, easily ignored by those uninterested.

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Lauri Watts
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