Re: Mailing list size

1999-12-06 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
"Dominic A. V. Amann" wrote: Although I like mailing lists, I am beginning to see a pattern. A list becomes useful at around 5-20 daily contributions. At around 30+, I glaze over and skip tons of stuff, wishing it would end already. modperl is well over that limit, and I now have to

Re: Mailing list size

1999-12-06 Thread wim
On 05-Dec-1999 Craig Shaver wrote: I think it would be a good idea to break out the embperl stuff. "Dominic A. V. Amann" wrote: Although I like mailing lists, I am beginning to see a pattern. A list becomes useful at around 5-20 daily contributions. At around 30+, I glaze over and skip

Mailing list size

1999-12-05 Thread Dominic A. V. Amann
Although I like mailing lists, I am beginning to see a pattern. A list becomes useful at around 5-20 daily contributions. At around 30+, I glaze over and skip tons of stuff, wishing it would end already. modperl is well over that limit, and I now have to unsubscribe just to keep my day

Re: Mailing list size

1999-12-05 Thread Stas Bekman
I think whenever you get advocacy posts then you see a flurry of posts. If you don't like those types of posts, you usually pretty quickly identify them by topic (currently it is the mod_perl programmers are in demand subject line).. and can filter out...Delete delete delete... I may be

Re: Mailing list size

1999-12-05 Thread Eric Strovink
Stas is right, I've been mass-deleting the "logo" and "demand" threads for several days, resulting in a quite manageable list. The nice thing is, you can always search the archive if you accidentally delete something (and you *should* search the archive before posting, anyway, as well as check

Re: Mailing list size

1999-12-05 Thread Anthony Gardner
Have to be honest and say that compared to other mailing lists I'm on, this one is the most professional and personal I've seen. From: Eric Strovink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stas Bekman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: mod_perl list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mailing list

Re: Mailing list size

1999-12-05 Thread G.W. Haywood
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Anthony Gardner wrote: Have to be honest and say that compared to other mailing lists I'm on, this one is the most professional and personal I've seen. Thank you. From all of us, I'm sure. On a technical (if not topical) point it would ease network traffic and the