Re: When are we going to get another list? (was: RE: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow, Tuesday 14th, 10:30AM, White City)

2007-08-19 Thread Kirk Northrop
Andrew Bowden wrote: It's also got to be said that the majority of people on a mailing list don't post. I don't know the stats for this list, but I'm on a mailing list of 300 people, about 20 of which post regularly. There's a lot of readers, and occassionally some of them post, but mostly

Re: When are we going to get another list? (was: RE: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow, Tuesday 14th, 10:30AM, White City)

2007-08-16 Thread Brian Butterworth
Chris, Finally, remember that the noise *is *the signal. You can't post too much. Deploy filters. http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html On 15/08/07, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that description of a shill is fairly accurate myself (but then, I

Re: When are we going to get another list? (was: RE: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow, Tuesday 14th, 10:30AM, White City)

2007-08-16 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 16/08/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris, Finally, remember that the noise is the signal. You can't post too much. Deploy filters. http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html ... which has been taken retrospectively to mean 'post what you like about

RE: When are we going to get another list? (was: RE: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow, Tuesday 14th, 10:30AM, White City)

2007-08-16 Thread Andrew Bowden
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 16 August 2007 08:47 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: When are we going to get another list? (was: RE: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow, Tuesday 14th,

Re: When are we going to get another list? (was: RE: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow, Tuesday 14th, 10:30AM, White City)

2007-08-16 Thread Matthew Cashmore
Hey all ­ was going to announce this when it was actually working ­ but I¹ve set up a new list called backstage-developer; it¹s a list totally devoted to developers and technical issues around BBC feeds and APIs ­ it will be policed to ensure this is the main aim of that list. You¹ll still be able

When are we going to get another list? (was: RE: [backstage] BBC iPlayer Protest tommorow, Tuesday 14th, 10:30AM, White City)

2007-08-15 Thread Christopher Woods
I think that description of a shill is fairly accurate myself (but then, I don't think I always fall under the WP NPOV guidelines! ;) Now then, all this discussion regarding MS, DRM, fair use, more DRM, Apple, Windows, more DRM etc... I find hugely interesting, and I even take part in