[ogb-discuss] [osol-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

[Alan Burlison]

Sean Sprague wrote:

> I agree completely. Without the employment of a moderator (very 
> short-straw job, and not very "open"), we are pretty much stuck with the 
> current situation; and the encumbent S/N ratio as you quite rightly say. 
> Its a shame, and even though people like Ian Collins do try valiantly to 
> point people to the correct place to search for the solution to 
> non-OpenSolaris problems, we certainly cannot behove upon him/them to 
> hoover up all the irrelevancies that regularly appear.

I don't think we need a moderated list, nor should the onus be on one 
person to do the job - we are a community so we can *all* do it, if 
that's what we have agreed.  The first person to see an OT post should 
reply with a 'you should be asking here' message, and if that's the end 
of the thread on os-discuss I think the noise will drop pretty rapidly.

> I wish that I had a good suggestion, but all I can currently come up 
> with is "ahh well...". If we close down osol-discuss, people will just 
> post their S10 questions to tools-linking, or somewhere equally relevant 
> in the faint hope that someone will be listening.

I don't think closing it is a good idea, but reclaiming it probably is ;-)

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Alan Burlison
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