I'm not against spinning off "remoting" ie LCDS, Blaze, SOAP, REST etc into another group, but like others I think the mix of vets and noobs is a good thing.
As for inbox management, here's what I do that works for me (gmail btw): All messages from the list go straight into "archive", not my inbox All threads I've posted to get a star with a mail filter Any threads I'm interested in, I star. When I come to see a large number of unread threads from the list, I open any unread messages in starred threads. Then I scan the remaining unread subjects for anything that I might be able to help with, or that I might like to know the answer to - I open messages, and either reply or star them if I'm interested / I can help. Anything else, I simply "mark read" and move on. I don't need to read every message, and neither do you. There's a fair few people here who are willing to help, and we're on different time zones. I don't think many reasonable questions are being overlooked. During the day, the list is low-enough traffic that I can see 5 - 10 messages at a time, and I just open anything that looks remotely interesting or I think I can probably help with, and "mark read" the rest. When there's just too many damned new messages, I read only the starred threads and mark the rest all as read without paying attention. I have been thinking about filters that scan incoming message bodies for things I'm interested in / know some about (such as SOAP and various XML encoders / decoders), but haven't bothered to do that yet. -Josh On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Tim Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My appologies Anatole; I mispelled your name. No offense intended. > > -TH > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.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 <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.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] <flex101%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<flex101-subscribe%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<flex101-unsubscribe%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<flex101-owner%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > EnterpriseFlex: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/enterpriseflex/ > > > > > > Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<enterpriseflex%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<enterpriseflex-subscribe%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > Unsubscribe: [EMAIL > > > PROTECTED]<enterpriseflex-unsubscribe%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<enterpriseflex-owner%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > > > FlexUI > > > FlexDesign > > > > > > FlexSDK > > > FlexDeployment > > > > > > FlexFlash > > > > > > FlexFrameworks > > > > > > FlexBestPractices > > > > > > EnterpriseFlex: > > > > > > FlexBlazeDS: > > > > > > weborb: > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > Anatole Tartakovsky > > > Farata Systems > > > > > > > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
