Time to split the mailing list?

[Matt Mackall]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:06:31PM -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> One of the things that came out of the user survey last week was that a
> number of mailing list subscribers find the list traffic to be too
> developer-oriented.
> 
> I suspect that at this point there's quite a number of people who would
> like to see usage-related traffic only, such as "how do I ...?" or
> "here's a neat way to ...".
> 
> This split might have the effect of increasing the amount of
> usage-related traffic (a good thing, in my mind), without decreasing the
> developer-centric stuff.
> 
> If this split is to take place, the obvious choice (to me, anyway) is to
> move to three lists:
> 
>       * mercurial-announce - release announcements only
>       * mercurial-devel - for code-related discussions
>       * mercurial-users - for Mercurial users
> 
> What do people think of the idea?

Sounds good to me.

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