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Re: The meeting on Wednesday
In message <1E54D8C76E8@hagiga.jct.ac.il> you write:
|look, I am coming from the world of BBSs. on Fidonet you have dozens to
|hundreds of areas, and like usenet, there are posters and there are
|crossposters, but that's a much rarer ocasion because there is a good
|description in the name, there is a moderator to direct you, and there
|are usually guidlines posted weekly. this is the ONLY way this will work
|propperly.
I'm not saying that a split per-se is bad. What I say is that a split along
the wrong lines might kill the list.
Examples? From the Usenet world too. What they do there is to see
that the traffic actually grows out of control and only then to split
accordingly. (specific example: the comp.os.linux hierarchy).
|THIS monday! don't you see? people! we have to have a stable mailing
|list, well maintaind for this show, we can split it later, to 10 lists
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hurray! This is exactly what I'm saying!
|> What about splitting things to "expert" and "newbie"?
|how about both?
That was a retoric question....
|> I'm not saying that your suggestion for a plit is totally out of the
|> question, but my point is that, *currently*, we don't know enough to
|> decide how to split, and if we do it wrong then the list will die.
|no it won't. it will fork and if one of the lists prooves itself useless,
|we will join it back into the master list...
Why fork and rejoin when you are not sure? might as well keep it one
list and have the same result, and with less confusion, IMHO.
|> Just let's let things flow and see what should be done (this is the
|> Zen aproach, isn't it? :-).
|
|that's the 'oops, why didn't we come prepared?' approach to me.
Look at it however you like. Just remember that there is also such a
thing called "overdoing".
Cheers,
--Amos
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