[TriLUG] Don't get involved in Trilug...you might post *gasp* off topic.

[Brent Verner]

[2002-02-19 22:54] Craig Duncan said:
| As an advocate for the creation of the dev list, I had no idea that it would 
| turn into a "Reading Circle" list. But rather it turn up there than on the 
| general tri-lug list of which the posts are way too numerous to really keep 
| up.

What traffic would you prefer the dev@ list to have?  I certainly 
didn't imagine the dev@ would have the "Reading Circle" thread(s), 
but it's good that the readership actually /have/ that forum for that 
discussion.  (Bias disclaimer: I am very interested in the reading
circle thread.)

You should open discussion on a topic you /do/ want to see on dev at .
It is open to any linux development topics, so send your questions,
comments, revelations, doh!s or most recent cool hack on over :-)

| ... should we have a reading circle list?

If the majority of the dev@ readership expresses similar feelings, I'd 
accept the discussion being split off, maybe at groups.yahoo or some
other non-trilug service.  Certainly, if the reading group discussion
becomes off-topic for linux development, then it is by association
OT from a linux LUG.  I hoped that the readership of dev@ would be
on-the-whole interested, since it should really be a free-for-all-
development-applicable-to-linux list, IMO, and good design is a totally
desirable skill for a linux developer to have.  If you don't like the
current traffic, change it by sending your questions, comments, 
revelations. &c. to that list.  I /will/ fight to keep the dev@ list
open to almost any development discussion, and I think forcing the
reading group discussion off would be a bad precedent to set.  In fact,
I hope the reading group can do something to share its adventures 
with the list members who don't come out to the meetings.

cheers.
  brent

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