[syslinux] Mailing list policy question

[Luis.F.Correia]

Hi! 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa at zytor.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:04 PM
> To: SYSLINUX at zytor.com
> Subject: [syslinux] Mailing list policy question
> 
> 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.

I'm ok with that.

I'll subscribe to whatever list gets created in order to continue to
get more knowledge about the syslinux family.

However, I can also still help the newbies in some way, if that question
is syslinux related. Or even redirect them to the proper mailing list or
website, I think it can help their problem.

Count me in to help support the newbies.

Luis Correia