Seperating mailing list traffic

Olli Salli olli.salli at collabora.co.uk
Tue Apr 5 09:19:01 CEST 2011


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On 04.04.2011 23:41, George Kiagiadakis wrote:
> 2011/4/4 Martin Klapetek <martin.klapetek at gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 19:18, Alin Marin Elena <alinm.elena at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Monday 04 Apr 2011 17:57:13 David Edmundson wrote:
>>>> It's been mentioned by at least 2 people now, that we should have a
>>>> seperate
>>>> mailing list for real humans and the 'spam' from reviewboard/bugzilla.
>>>> This
>>>> can make it easy for people to miss important mailing list
>>>> conversations.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>> (though today I seem to be spamming the list far more than any bot)
>>>
>>>
>>> for that filters were invented... i see no need to split the list...
>>> even kmail can do it nowadays...
>>> Alin
>>
>> I have personaly no strong feelings to either way too. I'm using GMail's web
>> interface, which has pretty great system of filters/labels and thanks to the
>> subject strings like REVIEW or BUG it's pretty easy to filter. However,
>> there are people who do not use GMail/KMail and might not have this
>> filtering possibility. Then it makes sense to separate the ML to
>> kde-telepathy-devel and kde-telepathy-bugs for example. Also there might be
>> people interested only in discussions etc and not in bugs (though they
>> should be interested in them as well :P), so that's another pro.
> 
> I don't care either. It's the same thing if you have proper tags on gmail.

For one, mailing list archives in the web can't be filtered easily. And
I at least use mailing list archives as an information source quite
often. After all, they're googleable, even the lists you have never
heard of before!

Br,
Olli

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