also sprach Angus Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.11.1007 +0100]: > As a general strategy, I'd like to move a lot of the actual discussion > off the mailing lists and into some higher bandwidth, higher turnover > medium.
You seem to imply moving from asynchronous to synchronous media. How are you planning to address the issues related to timezone, and the fact that synchronous media require all peers to be present simultaneously, while a major advantage of mailing lists is that people can respond when they find time? Also, mailing list archives are an invaluable resource, which does not exist as such on most synchronous media, especially not for VoIP. Have you considered this? What do you plan to do about it. > Even IRC, with its famed ability to waste time, seems to somehow > avoid the nastiness of public mailing lists. People get less publicity and therefore have less motivation to profile themselves. But it's quite rough on IRC sometimes. People just seem to take things less personally and generally have a thicker skin on IRC. That's why we can swear at each other and make fun of others without risking the productivity of the channel. There is a continuously high level of sarcasm, don't worry. Anyway, how are you going to ensure that we don't scream at each other over VoIP lines? Traffic control? :) > The approach I think is going to have the most dramatic impact > here is of course mailing list moderation. Although some people > are hotly opposed to this form of "censorship", this is something > I believe the project would benefit from and something we need to > experiment with. Fair enough. > I know the listmasters have some ideas here and there is obviously > huge variation in possible algorithms - I would think different > lists might even want different policies. I think this is > a discussion we need to have and I think its an area where we need > to feel confident to try out different ideas, make mistakes and > not be afraid to roll them back. I agree. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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