There's another reason why crossposting to two lists like linux-il and
debian-il, or linux-il and ivrix-discuss, is annoying: These two lists -
debian-il and ivrix-discuss were both created to discuss issues that could
have been conceivably been discussed on linux-il but were drowned in the
general noise in this list.
So many posts in debian-il and ivrix-discuss could be crossposted to
linux-il too. But why do that? Most (?) people who are interested in those
issues (Hebrew or Debian) are already members of that seperate list. If you
think that this is *not* true, you can just ignore the smaller lists and
post only to linux-il...

Crossposting has, or will, almost destroy the usefullness of "splinter"
mailing lists like ivrix-discuss or debian-il, which is a shame because
the general linux-il is too high-volume (30 messages a day, in the last
month) for many people who are just interested in more specific issues
(such as Hebrew or Debian, in this case).

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Nadav Har'El                        |       Thursday, Sep 5 2002, 28 Elul 5762