"roottalking" activity on this mailing list reached a level where we could
think about chanding the form of our communication:
it is not always convenient to receive by mail *all* the questions
and *all* the answers.
While a year ago having everybody communicating via mailing list
allowed to provide extremely fast response which was very important
for keeping project moving on, these days I'm already having kind of
trouble with cleaning up my mailbox - there are too many mail messages
coming to roottalk mailing list.
Personally I'd prefer to read most of them in "off-line" mode.
Looking how people around solve similar problems I found that
establishing a newsgroup with all the correspondence
directed primarily to there could (at least partially) help in
keeping private mailboxes from getting overloaded. Of course this
could somewhat slow down the response (not always you are automatically
notified about a newsposting) but I don't see a serious
problem with it: one could always send CC to rootdev@hpsalo.cern.ch ...
Regards, Pasha