You completely fail to miss the point. The OpenSRS site indicates that an
announce list is available. It tells us that we can sign up for this and
receive announcements. Nothing ever indicates that we _must_ sign up for
the developer list to receive announcements.
Just because you like it doesn't make it right.
And just hitting delete for messages we don't want -- clearly you don't get
the volume we do. The point of subscribing and filters an announce list is
so that we can prioritize and know what we have to know, versus things we
can read later at our leisure.
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:26:11PM -0500, ecs wrote:
> 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
>
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