Actually the opposite is happening.
Before all the mailing lists were in addition to RS Mailing Lists.
Today, RS will no longer have a ML(so they say). So they have fueled
people with the resources to make this lists shine. We have ISP people,
the best of programmers, newbies, and all sorts of people. Fueled by a
decision that was possibly meant for good, but was evil intended( as
some said in the forum "If they come fine, if they dont, we wont miss
them").
I as well as others will work on making this work. If not for any other
reason then showing RS a community that can and has come together. Yep
you heard it, we are not RS haters, we are people whom needs are not
been met and have just called in to action.
Que Viva La Revolucion!
(hehehe, sorry got cough up on the emotional implications there.)
John Balestrieri wrote:
On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Kirk Gray wrote:
First, the assumption is that redundancy is a Bad Thing. Having two
or more places to find information, in my opinion, is never a Bad Thing.
I think having the widest audience good:
When someone wants to post a question: Do they subscribe to several
lists then cross post to all of these lists?
If someone is interested in helping users by answering questions, do
they track down every Rb mailing list, subscribe, then get inundated
with redundant posts?
No, that's not going to happen en mass, just as there are very few of
us who use the forums and the mailing list. The net result will be
smaller, disconnected communities where questions and
question-answerers never meet up; rather than the community being
strong & centralized (which I think the current mailing list is).
I think fragmentation and redundancy can be a bad thing in this case.
That's why I give RS kudos for trying to eliminate it by
consolidation, even though I think they're going about it all wrong.
Likewise, I don't think the community is helping matters: How many new
lists have already sprouted up in the past couple of days? When these
lists accumulate some content, then disappear, where are they
archived? And consider this: any third-party list is not going to get
RS's support -- they're going to try and drive both new and existing
customers to the forums.
Multiple independent lists and lack of RS endorsement doesn't sound
like a winning strategy to me.
John
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