Every list I've been on that implemented such a setup ended up dead within the year. Traffic levels drop alright, spiraling down to zero. As long as truly OT flamewars and silliness are kept down, the sort of list non-structure that we currently enjoy allows a sense of community to form, allows one advice-giver to amplify or correct another advice-giver's answer, and allows serendipitous connections to be drawn.
Rather than less traffic, in my opinion we should have more traffic -- as I've said before, I would merge the newbie and expert lists into a single users list. I don't believe that there is a moderator since Todd left. Per Vincent's message, it appears that Mandrake has decided to shift their attention to web-fora as a support channel (bad mistake) and is consequently deprioritizing all lists other than cooker. Furthermore, mailing lists were never a support channel, support isn't really support, and black is truly white if you just stop and think about it long enough. Jack On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 08:23, Tru64 User wrote: > Hi ALL, > > I have one suggestion to make. To minimize traffic on > this list and make it a "Read All" list, i suggest the > following rules which are being followed on a > different list I am subscribing to to be adopted on > this list: > > After a question is posted, all replies should go > directly ONLY to the person who posted the question. > After a satisfactory resolution, the original poster > should then post a SUMMARY:, which is a description > to what/how the problem was solved, to the list. > > If responses slow down, and problem has not been > resolved, then the original poster can submit an > UPDATE: to the status of his problem if not resolved. > > Finally, if a problem is never resolved, send a > SUMMARY anyway, to say that problem was not > resolved/or no replies. U might be suprised how many > more may reply then, since they always assumed someone > else had : -) > > That way, every post will have mostly 2-3 total > entries only. > > 1. Original Question > 2. (Optional)UPDATE & > 3. SUMMARY. > > Heading should be tagged as such too, to show whether > this is an UPDATE or a SUMMARY. This makes it easier > to filter into peoples mailboxes. > That way, it will be very useful to all of us, and > future users of mdk. > > I come across posts that should be offline....like > email today said "I can say more offline than here" > and then, another email reply goes "I tell you" > Those should not belong here in my opinion. Those two > lines are 2/116 i received from Sat 10AM to Monday > 10AM. Automatically it forces a "HighLight ALL, > DELETE" for it takes too long to read all > emails...only to find out that a big number should not > have been posted to the public to begin with. > > Let me know what you guys think. BTW, who is the list > monitor? > > _Thanks > > Richard Mollel > > > ===== > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html
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