RFC: Communicating with users of trunk

[Martin Pool]

2009/5/7 Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com>:
> On 2009-05-04 20:41:32 -0500, Robert Collins <robert.collins at canonical.com>
> said:
>
>>
>> I don't think blogging is a good answer to this, because the point is to
>> get rare, but important messages to all users of the product when a
>> particular critical point is happening.
>
> I'd like to vote for a blog.
>
> For me a mailing list, low volume or not, means more email. Something more
> that has to make it past the greylists, the anti-spam services, the
> anti-virus services, and finally drop in my inbox.
>
> And then I look around and I see 10 other guys I work with all on the same
> mailing list, all dealing with the flood of email. That low-volume email is
> at least on the mail server, probably in a personal folder, on the mail
> server backup tapes, etc....

This reminds me a bit of mdz's recent post on the progression of
discussion technologies from usenet through microblogging:

  http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2009/05/03/internet-discussion-trends/

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>