Re: STOP WASTING BANDWITH!

Christoph Lameter (clameter@miriam.fuller.edu)
9 Mar 1996 12:23:35 -0800


: I have subscribed to this list for many years without the need for one
: single posting. Most of my Linux problems has been solved just by
: reading the postings to this list. (I run Linux on many machines
: including IBM-incompatible IBM laptops :) During the last couple of
: months the number of postings to the linux-kernel list has increased
: beyond imagination.

: It worries me a lot that most of the postings seem to be off topics
: (this one included, sorry all of you). Lately I had over 500 messages
: one morning, most of them related to what Linux should be called!!
: I have no idea how Linus and the rest of the developers survives this.
: Personally I'm very close to a very unfortunate 'unsubscribe
: linux-kernel' since even my regular emails tend to disappear in all
: this noise. My 'D' key soon needs replacement!!!

I dont get that many posts, but there is a simple solution to this problem.
Get rid of the mailing list and use the newsgroup linux.dev.kernel.
Disregard the junk threads.

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