On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:29 PM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This thread is a perfect example of why another list is needed. +1 On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh - dear. I think the point that most of us agreed on was that > having a different from: address wasn't a perfect solution for giving > people space for asking newbie type questions. No-one has to read an > email. If it looks boring or silly or irrelevant to your concerns, > well, then ignore it. Looking at the same mails, it doesn't seem to me that most of us have agreed on that. It seems most have us have expressed that they will be satisfied with two different lists but are open about considering the stackoverflow model. The latter will require more work and time to get it going copmpared to the former. Aside: A logical conclusion of your "dont read mails that dont interest you" would be that spam is not a problem, after all no one has to read spam. If it looks boring or silly or irrelevant to your concerns, well, then ignore it. On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn <d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no> wrote: > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4131462 It seems it was mostly driven an argumentative troll, who had decided beforehand to disagree with some of the other folks and went about cooking up interpretations so that he/she can complain about them. Sadly, this list shows such tendencies at times as well. Anecdotal data-point: I have been happy with SO in general. It works for certain types of queries very well. OTOH if the answer to the question is known only to a few and he/she does not happen to be online at time the question was posted, and he/she does not "pull" such possible questions by key-words, that question is all but history. The difference is that on a mailing list questions are "pushed" on to people who might be able to answer it, whereas in SO model people have to actively seek questions they want to answer. Unanticipated, niche questions tend to disappear. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
