evolution forgets state

[rikona]

Hello NoOp,

Thursday, September 30, 2010, 9:00:14 AM, NoOp wrote:

N> On 09/29/2010 09:50 PM, rikona wrote:
>> Hello C,
>> 
>> Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 6:02:33 AM, C wrote:
>> 
>>>> since they likely dont pay much attention to this list?
>> 
>> CdA> I, for example, have been trying to. Unfortunately -- for me --,
>> CdA> the signal to noise ratio is too big. Now I only skim it.
>> 
>> First, thanks for checking in...
>> 
>> I'm a recent Mandriva convert. When Mandrake was quite popular, they
>> set up multiple lists - newbie, expert and [not done by them]
>> OffTopic. This helped quite a lot in sorting out the large load. I
>> would again suggest doing something like that. It helped - especially
>> the OT list.
>> 

N> That is what the sounder list is for...
N> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/sounder
N> <quote>
N> The Sounder mailing list should be used for discussion of subjects of
N> general interest related to the Ubuntu project, Linux, Open Source or
N> software in general.
N> </quote>

In theory, yes "But then we got some major smacking on the sounder
list for BEING OT and some smart aleck dug up the ancient original
purpose of the sounder list which has now been taken over by one of
the devs' lists. " [according to a recent email here]. So maybe it's
not an OT list after all. At the least, then, they would discourage OT
discussions, as defined by those list police. :-) A very clear OT
charter would avoid the greyness of sounder.

The newbie/expert split was also quite good. Newbie was a very gentle,
friendly, welcoming list with never a RTFM, but with excellent help
for newbies. The nice 'atmosphere' plus the excellent newbie-oriented
help was a major reason I originally used Mandrake.

More technical inquiries went to expert, and the answers assumed a bit
more more from the reader. But, the 'expert' traffic was significantly
lower, and might not be as big a burden as one of the devs mentioned
this list was.

It might help to get more dev involvement, and better user-dev
communication. One could also do different filtering for each list, if
subscribed to all three, as I was. I also had different priorities for
reading each list, to lower my load when extra busy. I see a lot of
positives if done right, and few negatives. Worked very well...

-- 

 rikona