Jesse Kline wrote: >On Thu, 2006-30-11 at 23:11 -0700, Jon wrote: > > >>It makes sense to me and I think it's a good idea. At the onset, though, >>I'm finding it tough to deal with because the new tech list is really, >>really quiet. So quiet, in fact, that it's almost not worth posting to >>because so few people are reading (or at least responding to) it. I feel >>like I've lost a great resource for assistance, but I concede that >>perhaps that was never the purpose of clug-talk. >> >> > >I know I've stated this in the past, but my concern is that too many >people will subscribe to clug-tech, and unsubscribe from clug-talk. We >now have 7 mailing lists, and 4 web forums. How many people do we have >in this group now? The problem is that if we fracture the group enough, >it will be really hard to get our questions answered. We may have the >knowledge in the group, but those people may not be monitoring the forum >or list that we post to. The way to get around this is to cross-post, >but then people won't want to be signed up to multiple lists, because >they'll get too many duplicates. > > This argument is most illogical. The currency is linux knowledge. I would be posting my questions where the knowledge resides. As a consumer of that knowledge, I need to go to the right market if I want an answer. The split in the posting is not necessary to accommodate us that have questions but to accommodate those who have limited time that only want to deal with technical issues.
> > >>I know that the momentum will pick up as more people subscribe and since >>I can see the long term benefit of splitting the two themes I'm onside >>with it. I just wish everyone would freakin' subscribe to it already! >> >> > >Sorry, but I'm boycotting clug-tech for now. I hope others do the same. > > Sorry Jesse, but if we all took an attitude of wait and see, then we would have a self-fulfilling prophecy. Why do anything different ever? >Jesse > > >_______________________________________________ >clug-talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >**Please remove these lines when replying > > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
