On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 20:30 -0800, MrC wrote: > No loaded words meant in a harmful way. I was being playful when I > chose the word banter as meaning good-humored, playful conversation. > > My thoughts were that if we could try to keep a little separation > between the generally interesting discussions from the requests for > help, or architectural issues, that folks would be better served. Its > ok if you feel otherwise.
The traffic volume on this list/forum is what I'd call heavy, well over 100 messages a day. I remember when Sean claimed that the list was low volume. I'm of two views, self conflicting as it were. On one hand, the volume will lower naturally over time, we just had the SB3 product release/announcement, and there is always a huge spike when a new version comes along. I think the volume will decrease to an acceptable level pretty quickly, especially if we don't have meta postings like this one. And while I love to snark about iPods or the stupidity of the RIAA, and these topics really are off topic for a SqueezeBox/SlimServer mailing list, so they should be banished to a "coffeehouse" type subforum, I'm not sure that creating a "banter" forum/list is a good idea. Such lists tend to degrade into noise and politics, soon to be followed by a descent described in Goodwin's Law. I think the internet has a sufficient number of blogs, forums and newsgroups dedicated to nothing, already. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
