> H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com) wrote:
> > claim, I do feel it is his decision to make. However, without
> > linux.dev.* I feel there is no justification for me continuing to
> > spend time maintaining the remaining few linux.* gates. I will
>
> Isn't there someone to jump in? If all former linux.dev.* subscribers start
> to subscribe directly to the vger lists, this will cause a) much more load
> on the vger Majordomo server and b) much more network traffic.
I see some logic in not allowing people to post, and esp. read the
mailing list through usenet. Mainly, they will *EXPERIENCE* how much
traffic this list gets, and will see what types of posts are sent,
regardless of whether they want to or not. It is very easy to mark a
whole bunch of news messages as read, it is more difficult to do so with
mail ...
-Seth