I find that whilst there would appear to be a clear separation between a discussion of web standards and how-to's, quite often a look at someone's source code sparks off an interesting and valuable debate about the web standards issues involved. The overlap would seem to add richness to the list, rather than just volume.
There also seems to be a tendency to email off-list when offering specific or extensive one-on-one help (which could perhaps be encouraged)? One of the downsides of a good list is that it becomes a popular list!!! Having said this I am not necessarily against the idea of two lists - I'd join both! James -----Original Message----- From: Mark Stanton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 March 2004 12:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] Purpose of this mailing list Hi Mike The purpose of this list is two fold: Q&A stuff and general web standards discussion/news updates. We have tried to create a culture on this list that is very topic based rather than creating a really chatty community with lots of OT posts about what people got up to on the weekend. So basically we want this list to contain anything and everything as long as its on topic. I realise that there are other CSS Q&A lists out there, but this list is different in the sense that it is really the extension of a group and the group's meetings. I would say that at the moment the membership of the list these days far exceeds the attendance of our meetings, but the list has evolved out of the group & group meetings. People who can't make it to meetings are always welcomed & encouraged to organise meetings in their areas. We are very aware of list volume issues and understand that this is a touchy subject for some, but at the same time getting too restrictive will alienate other list members. I've got a graphic artist in here who has similar complaints to yours - he finds Russ's emails with lists of links very interesting because they give him a good idea of issues that he has to design around and techniques that we can be employing. But he doesn't code CSS all day so he doesn't really get much from the "how do I get this float working" posts. What would you think about a blog & RSS feed for news stuff (or would this just be "another CSS blog")? Or two lists, one for news and one for implementation issues? Anyway its an open issue at the moment - we're still trying to find the right mix. Cheers Mark ------------------ Mark Stanton Technical Director Gruden Pty Ltd Tel: 9956 6388 Mob: 0410 458 201 Fax: 9956 8433 http://www.gruden.com ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ *****************************************************
