> You can subscribe to be notified by email whenever a question is posted > to a certain tag.
Absolutely true. > So then it is no different than a mailing list as far > as push/pull. There are a few differences though. New tags get created often, potentially in a decentralized fashion and dynamically, way more often than creation of lists. Thats why the need to actively monitor. Another is in frequency of subscription, how often does a user of SO subscribe to a tag. Yet another is that tags are usually are much more specific than a typical charter of a mailing list and thats a good thing because it makes things easier to find nd browse. I think if the tags are kept broad enough (or it is ensured that finer tags inherit from broader tags. For example numpy.foo where foo can be created according to the existing SO rules of tag creation ) and participants here are willing to subscribe to those tags, there wont be much of a difference. So, just two qualifiers. In addition if there is a way to bounce-n-answer user questions posted here to the SO forum relatively painlessy that will be quite nice too. May be something that creates a new user based on user's mail id, mails him/her the response and a password with which he/she can take control of the id. It is more polite and may be a good way for the SO site to collect more users. Best --srean _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
