Hi Jacinta,
(top-posting)
Very good advice, thanks!
Yes, you are perfectly right.
OK, now we'll need to wait for the @perl.org mail admins to set up a
$something-c...@perl.org mailing list (hoping they would agree.).
So I'm killing this thread here.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 24 Apr 2011 12:50:44 Jacinta Richardson wrote:
> Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > wanting to help them. As a result, I suggest moving it to
> > advocacy@perl.org (or maybe beginners-c...@perl.org or possibly
> > perl-c...@perl.org , if Ask and friends will be kind enough to set it up
> > (modelled after the haskell-cafe concept, where discussions are moved
> > from the main haskell mailing list). Anyone can send an email to
> > advocacy@perl.org , even if they are not subscribed and everyone can
> > subscribe to it by sending an email to advocacy-subscr...@perl.org .
> > Anyway, it was a good place to discuss social issues in the past, and
> > it's very quiet now so I don't think people will mind the action.
>
> I mind the action. Not because I mind discussion on this mailing list,
> but because I do mind having a conversation dumped in here that doesn't
> make any sense. This might be a good place to discuss social issues,
> but only within the limits of how those social issues impact on Perl
> advocacy. The conversation fragment we've been subjected to so far does
> not seem to have any relevancy. If you want to have a different mailing
> list set up, then go about getting that done the right way; not by
> dragging an unrelated and irrelevant (and not particularly friendly)
> conversation onto a list where it doesn't belong.
>
> It is not this mailing list's responsibility to get you a -cafe set up.
>
> In the future, if you feel you feel you do need to redirect a
> conversation from one mailing list to another; and it is relevant to the
> new mailing list, please provide context for the new mailing list
> readers, rather than just continuing the conversation as if everyone
> else has been following it already. (Context in the form of a link to
> existing archives is better than nothing, but poor form all the same.)
>
> J
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