IMO: There should be something like the OpenBSD-misc = PHP General, and
OpenBS-Tech = A more advanced list... "Please do not cross post"...
Regards,
Martin Marconcini
www.marconcini.com.ar
"Life must be lived looking forward and can be understood only looking
backward." Soren Kierkegaard
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Masiello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:15 PM
> To: Darren Henderson
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [PHP] New lists (was [PHP] Attitude of B van Ouwerkerk)
>
>
> I think the problem with spreading out discussions that can be as
broad as
> the PHP discussion is that you still tend to have people gravitate
towards
> some of the more "general" or "higher level discussion" groups
regardless
> of
> whether or not it should fall into the "newbie" category or not.
>
> This is for a couple of reasons:
> 1) Newbies may think that their newbie group is read mainly by
> newbies...so
> their question either might not get answered at all or will not
receive
> the
> thorough answer they were hoping for.
> 2) Being a newbie, they might think that their question is "worthy"
(for
> lack of a better term) of higher level discussion because, to them, it
is
> a
> very difficult problem to solve.
>
> ...not to mention that questions would then be "spammed" across
multiple
> mailing lists anyway.
>
> Either way, we would still need a PHP General Forum, so I am not
convinced
> that creating more specialized mailing lists would accomplish much
more
> than
> creating MORE mail traffic (from the spammed questions) and alienating
> people who used the more specialized lists because most everyone else
is
> still mainly reading the "General Forum."
>
> My 2 copper pieces worth.
>
> Sam Masiello
> Software Quality Assurance Engineer
> Synacor
> (716) 853-1362 x289
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darren Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:41 AM
> To: B. van Ouwerkerk
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] New lists (was [PHP] Attitude of B van Ouwerkerk)
>
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, B. van Ouwerkerk wrote:
>
> > There's nothing wrong with being a newbie.. the only newbie-problem
I
> > see/have is the lazy one.. ask ask ask ask without taking the time
to
> read
> > the manual or to do a search in the archive. Sure there are newbies
who
> > read the manual.. get some tutorials.. thats good. They should get
all
> the
> > support they need..
>
> Unfortunately this kind of thing happens on all the mailing lists I've
> seen
> that are devoted to questions. The real problem here is that the list
is
> simply too busy. I can do no more then skim the subject lines and then
> usually delete all of it unless something jumps out at me.
>
> It might be helpful if some new mailing lists were created, it
wouldn't be
> a
> perfect solution but it would help if there were some degree of self
> selecting behavior possible. Currenty all questions go to php-general.
If
> there were, say, a php-newuser and a php-questions list then perhaps
> php-general could be used for slightly higher level discussions.
Actually
> its probably too late to "save" php-general, hard to get people to
> change. Maybe a new list that caters to a higher level of discussion,
say
> php-authoring or the like?
>
> Just a thought. So much tends to get lost or over looked in high
volume
> mailing lists.
>
>
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