[darcs-users] considering deletion of this list

[David Roundy]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 06:23:57PM +0100, Eric Kow wrote:
> 2008/4/24 David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net>:
> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:13:59AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> >  > If you don't want to kill the user base, merging makes a *lot*
> >  > more sense, David.
> 
> If you're going to delete a list, perhaps it's -devel that should go,
> as developers are more likely to switch to -users than vice versa.

It seems a little silly to delete the list that's heavily used, but I
could certainly do that.

> Otherwise, I think my suggestion of keeping -devel around only for
> automated messages (and your thank-yous) is doable.  It need only be
> enforced by social convention, nothing to set up.

Okay.  This is what I've decided.  darcs-devel is no set to reject posts by
non-members, and also rejects posts by a subset of members (since I didn't
want to click 162 times).  Hopefully that'll be enough to get folks moved
to the darcs-users list.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University