Re: [HOT] Inflationary use of the mailinglist

2017-03-28 Thread Rory McCann
Hi Julian, Sorry this is happening to you. If your email is set to alert you for every email, this would be quite an annoyance! Some communities use mailing lists as a low-traffic annouce system, but others use them as a web forum type thing. OSM usually uses the latter. As well as

Re: [HOT] Inflationary use of the mailinglist

2017-03-26 Thread joost schouppe
It took me a long time to accept mailing lists as the main communication tool for OSM related stuff. But I did find a way to cope with being subscribed to many (many!) osm mailing lists. In any mail application it should be possible to devise automatic rules to preclassify mails. I have a rule

Re: [HOT] Inflationary use of the mailinglist

2017-03-26 Thread Julian Haag
Thanks for your reply, and thanks to Blake too! maybe I am just not able to use a mailinglist correctly. No doubt mapswipe is an interesting tool and is related to HOT. But in my opinion only urgend topics should go into a mailinglist. Don't get me wrong: During the Nepal quake there were

Re: [HOT] Inflationary use of the mailinglist

2017-03-26 Thread Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
Hi Julian, Thank you very much for being a part of the HOT community! HOT is doing mapping every day of the week and while there are times of severe crisis after a disaster when our mapping is focused and dramatically increased, the daily mapping for humanitarian projects is very important as

Re: [HOT] Inflationary use of the mailinglist

2017-03-26 Thread Jo
Your message really surprises me. MapSwipe is an app that was created by MSF, to help save HOT's mappers time, so they can focus on mapping. I think that's an interesting discussion thread. Not sure about the others, but the way to read mailing lists is to look at the topics that interest you and

[HOT] Inflationary use of the mailinglist

2017-03-26 Thread Julian Haag
Hello everyone, I am interested in information regarding HOT activations, the talk about real HOT problems and some news regarding HOT, so I joined this list about a year ago during the earthquake in Nepal. Currently I found myself deleting nearly 98% of the messages of this list even without