On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 13:56:19 PM -0600, Rigel
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> Please help me to understand how over the course of 24 hours, we can
> have 38 messages, all dedicated to a single thread on an argument
> about replying to e-mails of users not on the list?
Having single threads burst to 50/100 messages over one weekend is
nothing new to this list, regardless of the subject. It happens when
someone hits a sensitive issue.
> "Is the behavior achieving a "logical" end?"
I'm insisting because I hope that the lists and their archives will
become less clogged and more useful, reducing at the some time the
load on moderators. Sounds logical to me.
> "Does the ends justify the means?"
which means sorry? Mine (insisting here) or OO.o?
> "Is this a matter of conduct inhibiting or promoting the mission
> statement of OOo?"
Again, which matter? Running the list as they are now? If this is what
you meant, my position is that, since it overloads maintainers,
regular subscribers and archives, it inhibites OO.o's mission.
> If we can figure those out, hopefuly we can overcome the hurdle of
> attitudes and move onto analyzing the technical barriers that
> prevent us from becoming a more efficient technical facility on
> CollabNet, and in the SUN corporate schema.
"efficient" and "corporate" seldom go together. Apart from that, *my*
understanding is that it can't get any better, using only CollabNet,
unless only subscribed users are allowed to post. Nicholas summed this
up, I believe, saying that these lists are run as private ones, when
they want/have to be public. Hence my suggestion: to put at
least a permanent request on the website for some external volunteer
with the right SW/HW setup to make everybody's load lighter.
Ciao,
Marco
--
Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/
"What terrifies you most in purity," I asked?
"Haste," William answered. -- The Name of the Rose, Fifth Day, Nones
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