To handle the current influx of (annoying) announces, we need to create new mailing lists, named debian-announce-announce and debian-devel-announce-announce, as well as accompanying lists named debian-announce-announce-flames and debian-devel-announce-announce-flames with the Reply-To set to these lists.

Would you please just shut up? Thank you.

The original Ubuntu announcement was probably not appropriate for the list. I just ignored it when I read Ubuntu. The clownish public flame “announcement” afterwards was a nuiscance, and a certain evidence of incapacity. But the amount of pointless discussion that has sprung from it reminds me of why I don’t read debian-devel any more…

Please direct further comments to /dev/null.

In fact, such pointless threads explain why we’re using Planet.Debian so much: because our mailinglists are so bad. Fortunately, there have been rather few posts on that issue on planet yet… because I don’t have a “delete thread” option there.