Re: [boost] Avoiding message overload by tagging messages

From: Valentin Bonnard (Bonnard.V_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-08-04 17:45:15

Beman Dawes wrote:

> One of the occasional complaints about the boost mailing list (and lots of
> other lists, too) is "message overload".  Too many uninteresting
> messages.

And too many messages with no references header. Please use a mailer
that 
includes a references header when replyign to a message !

> One way to deal with message overload is to have separate mailing lists
> for   boost sub-topics.  I don't want to do that for a bunch of reasons you
> can probably anticipate.

Unlike in the news, there are no ways (that I know of) to Followup-to
here, so 
it would be difficult to redirect discution from a particular list to
another.

> Two topics which bore some readers are the CVS repository and fixing
> libraries to work with broken compilers. 

For this tpoic I would suggest the keyword [bugware].

-- 
Valentin Bonnard