[Freedos-devel] Consolidating the FreeDOS lists

[Jim H. <jh...@fr...>]

Sorry for the cross-post, but I wanted to make sure people knew about 
the other list before I made changes.

I've noticed that traffic on several of our lists has decreased to the 
point of a trickle.  It's been suggested to me that we try to 
consolidate lists, to re-invigorate discussion among FreeDOS developers 
and focus discussion to relevant development topics.

Closing down some of the lists in order to funnel new users into a 
common discussion area does seem to be a good move right now.

I copied the list traffic stats into a spreadsheet so I could look for 
trends.  See http://www.freedos.org/jhall/temp/traffic/traffic.png


It's pretty clear that freedos-user, freedos-devel, and freedos-32-dev 
are our most active lists.  The others have declined in traffic since 
about Sept 2004, if they had any traffic to speak of.  That means the 
lists to close down would be freedos-devel-net, freedos-kernel, 
freedos-freecom, freedos-cvs, and fd-doc-list.

So, I'd like to close down these 5 lists, and just have all traffic go 
to freedos-devel.  What do you think?

-jh



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