[Debtags-devel] [RFC] mailing list organisation

[Peter Rockai]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:21:36PM +0100, Hervé Eychenne wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:49:01PM +0100, Peter Rockai wrote:
[snip]
> Or the infrastructure, in general.
right

[snip]
> > so what i propose:
> > Tag mail subjects with [vocabulary] (or [voc], whichever people like
> > more, but we should pick one :) accordingly. It would make it easier
> > to scan the list.
> 
> Experience shows that this kind of filtering does not work, as you
> generally cannot expect that everyone would follow this rule.
> 
> Creating a separate mailing-list usually works better, even if
> I bet that some people would still post about the vocabulary on
> debtags-devel from time to time (and then be pointed to
> debtags-vocabulary).

I was thinking about this, too. However, this seems sort of
premature. Also, considering that the list is rather small with lot of
traffic from regulars, i don't think this should be too
problematic. Newcomers will either figure by themselves or will be
gently taught, just like what would happen with separate mailinglists.

Yours,
    Peter.

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