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[Mario Mommer]

Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola at cc.hut.fi> writes:
> While on the topic: though I like the default of -devel, -help, and
> -announce, for most hosted projects this is actually a bit excessive:
> -devel would seem to be enough. As a result we host a huge number of stale
> lists, and while this is essentially "free" for us, it increases the
> likelyhood that someone interested in project foo will subscribe to a dead
> list and wonder where eveyone is...
> 
> Hence, I'd like to suggest that we from now on would by default generate
> only -devel list for new projects, unless they request more. Projects
> prior to 1.0 seldom need -help or -announce.
> 
> What do you think?

I think that your idea is good. But IIRC, we've had this discussion
before, and the conclusion was that since the current policy minimizes
the amount of administration, it is better. I wonder if better tools
could add flexibility to this and keep the administration overhead
almost as low.

Regards,
        Mario.