On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Doug Cutting <cutt...@apache.org> wrote: > On 02/04/2012 09:15 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: >> We both care about this stuff, which is why we keep replying. I'm happy >> to continue to reply, so long as you are when I feel it's warranted. I've >> ignored a few of them that I didn't have the energy to, but that's the point >> of a mailing list. At the end of the day, I hope with the diligence and >> effort >> I've provided to reply to folks concerns (whether they think I've replied >> or addressed them or not), I am basically brain dumping and trying to >> not leave any question as to what my opinions are. > > Chris & others, > > Please do not feel obliged to answer every response to your messages > here. That does not scale well. There are a lot of people who read > this list. Each message sent is equivalent to taking the floor in a > meeting with all of these people in the room. Please pause to consider > that before responding or folks will start to leave this room. > > A best practice on a list with this many members is to respond > thoughtfully on each thread just once per day. Try to keep your > responses short, sticking to the points which are most important to you. > Then wait, giving folks who might only read the list once a day a > chance to respond to each of your messages. Use this time to gauge the > general response of the community. Then try to respond to the list as a > whole rather than individually to each member of the list.
Chris is one with a radical suggestion, the others are many. It is very likely, that the one with a radical suggestion needs to respond to many questions/concerns/etc and needs more emails than the other people. Acting like you said is a unbalanced discussion. If you have problems with the content of this list subscribe to: general-digest-subscribe read the mail archive or try to get your email filter to work. Gmail offers "mute" Cheers Christian (one of the guys who can't follow all emails here) > Thanks, > > Doug > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
