Perennial suggestion to split freebsd-stable into version-specific lists

[Philipp Ost]

CmdLnKid wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:17 -0000, dougb wrote:
> 
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I make this suggestion every time there is a new major release coming,
>> maybe this time will be the one! :)
>>
>> One could argue that with the 2 active stable branches that we have
>> now the freebsd-stable@ mailing list is already quite confusing.
>> Adding a third (8-STABLE) will make it much more so (arguably
>> confusion to the third power instead of just confusion squared), for a
>> lot of reasons that I think are probably obvious.
>>
>> Thus, my suggestion. Split what is currently freebsd-stable into one
>> list per branch. This year I even have a better suggestion for the
>> names, freebsd-6@, freebsd-7@, and freebsd-8 at . After the flag day mail
>> sent to the existing -stable list can get an auto-reply explaining the
>> new world order.
>>
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Doug
>>
> On second thought you could also create the FreeBSD-?stable list and 
> still have then CC'd to the FreeBSD-stable list for archive purposes 
> allowing people to just subscribe to one list or all of them as a group.

And what if someone sends mail to FreeBSD-stable? Reject it because this 
list is just for archiving purposes? Or accept it and send it out (just 
like now) adding yet more confusion?

Personally, I don't have a problem with the current situation, but then 
that's just me...

Just my 2 cents,
Philipp
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