+1 from me for the suggestion to have two mailing lists, one restricted to sufficiently important announcements and similar stuff, and the other open to discussion allowing for lively peaks of traffic.
Best regards, Jan On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 04:46:18PM +0100, Bert Overduin wrote: > I personally don't have a problem with long threads on the mailing list. If > I see lots of messages with the same subject header popping up (like today > with "Word and PowerPoint "all wrong"?"), I can just ignore those if I'm > not interested in that discussion (anymore). Moving long threads to GitHub > means having to check two different places, which I wouldn't find ideal. > Matthew's suggestion of different lists, e.g. an "announce" list and a > "discuss" list, makes more sense to me. > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Matthew Brett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Jonah Duckles > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Matthew, > > > > > > This has been a convention on the list for a long time. We have over 700 > > > subscribers who stay on the list to keep involved in the activities of > > the > > > community. We have frequent complaints about chatty threads from our > > > subscribers, so the GitHub issues are a compromise to allow the > > conversation > > > to continue while keeping the list traffic manageable for most. > > > > It sounds like there may be different kinds of subscribers, some of > > whom want to see lots of healthy debate, and some of whom want to get > > occasional announcements. Maybe that should be different lists? > > > > The problem with moving the long threads off the list is that you run > > the risk of stifling the debate by reducing the number of > > participants, or by implying that it may not be of general interest. > > > > Best, > > > > Matthew > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > > > > > -- > Bert Overduin, PhD > TRAINING AND OUTREACH BIOINFORMATICIAN > [email protected] > orcid.org/0000-0002-5281-8838 > > EDINBURGH GENOMICS > The University of Edinburgh > Ashworth Laboratories > The King's Buildings > Charlotte Auerbach Road > Edinburgh EH9 3FL > Scotland, United Kingdom > > tel. +44(0)1316507403 > http://genomics.ed.ac.uk > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- +- Jan T. Kim -------------------------------------------------------+ | email: [email protected] | | WWW: http://www.jtkim.dreamhosters.com/ | *-----=< hierarchical systems are for files, not for humans >=-----* _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
