[syslinux] Mailing list policy question

[H. Peter Anvin]

Hi all,

While I was gone I thought a bit about the flame war a few weeks ago and 
some of the very unpleasant private emails some people decided to send 
me as a result, most of them demanding that I solve *their* particular 
problem for them.

I wanted to get people's feel for what the policy should be for this 
mailing list.  I have so far tried to limit it to the syslinux loader 
family plus tftp-hpa, to keep the volume down.  Unfortunately we get 
lots of people asking questions about all kinds of boot loading issues, 
and sometimes not even that.  Worse, recently we seem to have gotten a 
spat of people who keep re-sending the same message over and over until 
they get the kind of reply they want.

I'm wondering what the people here -- especially the regulars -- think 
about this whole issue.  One option I'm considering is to make the 
"syslinux" mailing list a looser scope, and create a separate 
"syslinux-devel" mailing list for the hardcore development work. 
However, none of this is useful if there is no community to go with it; 
and experience has shown that newbies with questions will happily spam 
whatever lists they think will give them the answer they want, so having 
a users list would only be useful if there will still be people hanging 
around and helping the newbies out.

	-hpa