Bill,
In my opinion, you are making a mountain out of a molehill.
It is not that hard to hit the delete button on the messages
that you do not wish to read. If this list contained
thousands or even hundreds of messages per day, then I might
support your point.
However, this is a fairly low volume list, where the "noise"
does not make that great of an impact.
Your messages about this issue and the responses by OpenSRS
to them have generated more "noise" on this list than the
original announcement did. I received the announcement
yesterday, so when I received this message and read the
first line, I deleted it.
No real big deal to hit the delete button.
There are a lot of messages that hit this list that I have
absolutely no interested in, however, I do not send a
response to each one of them asking that they not be
discussed. After all, I am just one person on this list and
other list members may be interested in the subject matter.
So I hit the delete button and move on.
As to those who no longer subscribe, I would say that was
their loss.
This list does contain information that I find helpful from
time to time. My helpful information may be your "noise",
but then we are not the only two on this list.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 1:47 PM
To: Ross Wm. Rader
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Fwd: New Release of OpenSRS Client and Server,
v2.2 (fwd)
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:
> I believe that announce-list was deprecated by ScottA a
while back...he
> now uses the live-reseller mailing facitility thing...
I hope not. Announcements should be archived and the
announce list is the
perfect place for it.
By posting the announcement to all of the mailing lists
"because some of
you may have missed this" makes my point perfectly clear.
The
announcement list serves a very important and useful
purpose. I know of
many people who no longer subscribe to discuss and dev due
to all of the
noise (this includes more than live resellers). This make
another good
point for the need of an announcement list.
Regards,
Bill
