My appologies Anatole; I mispelled your name. No offense intended. -TH
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Hoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Anotole, > > This topic has been brought up several times since this list was > established. At times, it does seem that the post topics are very > diverse. However, with the clear exception of flexcomponents, the > suggestion to split the list into sub groups has been consistantly > avoided; to reduce the number of feeds that the primary responders to > the list have to monitor. It would be near impossible for the Adobe > experts, and others on this list, to regulary respond to the wide > variety of posts that are made if they had to watch 12 different lists. > Agreed, like RSS feeds, the inbox gets full rather quickly. Just using > the Yahoo interface, to scan messages, works great and doesn't take up > much time at all though. And yes, there are frequent questions by > people that are new to flex. I look at helping people that are just > starting as paying it forward. The mix on this list is diverse, but > people can always go to the Adobe Flex forums; if they want more > specialized focus. I don't want to sound like I'm not agreeing with > your proposal; it has merit. However, it would probably splinter the > group too much. If anything, I think the quality and focus would be > improved if people tried to limit the posts/responses to Flex related > issues. That would probably reduce the inbox clutter by 1/3. :-) > > -TH > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Anatole Tartakovsky" > <anatole.tartakovsky@> wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > Flexcoders has huge problem. In the last 15 month it is very much > > stagnant in terms of message count and participation. It is not > growing and > > dropping members as fast as it gets them. > > > > I believe this group has overgrown the optimal size about a year ago > and > > needs to be divided in more focused smaller groups. My mail box get > 100+ > > messages a day on all kinds of topic - unless I can spend 30+ minutes > that > > day to sort them out it goes directly into garbage can. Most people in > the > > company unsubscribed from it 18 month ago. Most of veteran developers > I know > > either unsubscribed or stopped looking in this mess greatly > diminishing the > > quality of the responses. As a result group mostly host new developers > and > > looses most of experienced ones after very short period of time. > > > > Further delay of breaking this group hinders usefulness of the group > for all > > of us as now we have significant amount of users that are being forced > out. > > I believe it is time to archive flexcoders and branch (12?) targeted > new > > user groups > > > > I would like to see people suggesting user subgroups and WiKi topics > for > > Flex community site to go with each group - providing best posts in > more > > systematic way. > > > > I suggest the following Yahoo groups ( created couple for your > > convenience). > > > > Flex101: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flex101/ > > > > Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > EnterpriseFlex: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/enterpriseflex/ > > > > Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > FlexUI > > FlexDesign > > > > FlexSDK > > FlexDeployment > > > > FlexFlash > > > > FlexFrameworks > > > > FlexBestPractices > > > > EnterpriseFlex: > > > > FlexBlazeDS: > > > > weborb: > > > > Sincerely, > > Anatole Tartakovsky > > Farata Systems > > >
