Perhaps the list can be maintained as one, but shifted to a newsgroup? Newsreaders are much more capable than clients at dealing with a high-volume of messages, and they can keep track of threads much better as well...
I agree with the previous replier about the ambiguity with some topics such as ADO.Net. In other cases, there are architecture questions that also span the range of topics. It would seem best to keep the list together but just move it over to an NNTP format rather than email. That'll also get rid of the annoying "Out of Office" responses that often follow a post to this list. --Oren > -----Original Message----- > From: dotnet discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Ahern, Shannon > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 5:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [DOTNET] Administrative Announcement - Please Read > > The overwhelming success of DevelopMentor's DOTNET list over the past 22 > months has been both a blessing and a > burden to the .NET developer community. The popularity of this list has > resulted in an enormous volume of > traffic, making it difficult for some subscribers to participate in > discussions that are of particular interest > to them while safely ignoring less applicable conversations without fear > of "missing out" on something > important to their work. > > To deal with this, DevelopMentor has decided to repartition this list into > a small number of more focused lists > that each cater to particular communities of developers. In keeping with > the spirit of the Common Language > Runtime, we will offer 3 framework-centric lists that focus on Windows > application development, web application > and web service development, and the CLR. These forums will provide a > place for developers using any .NET > language to seek out or assist developers working on similar areas of > development on the .NET platform: > > DOTNET-WEB > Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for the Web. This > includes both traditional "Web > applications" designed for browser-based clients as well as "Web services" > designed for other applications to > consume. Possible topics include ASP.NET, the HTTP pipeline, System.Web, > System.Xml, etc. > > DOTNET-WINFORMS > Discussion forum for developers using Windows Forms to build applications > and controls. Possible topics > include building custom controls, working with the forms designer, the > mechanics of web-based deployment, > installation and configuration, etc. > > DOTNET-CLR > Discussion forum for developers looking for assistance on issues that > affect all forms of application and > component development on the .NET platform. Possible topics include code > access security, remoting, > reflection, memory management and finalization, concurrency, assembly > resolution, etc. > > This list will remain active for a 30-day grace period. After that time, > only the archives will remain > available. New subscriptions and postings will no longer be allowed. > > Our hope is that you will subscribe to one or more of the new, more > focused, lists according to your own > interests. We hope that the inconvenience of having to subscribe to a > different lists will be outweighed by > the improved experience of participating in more focused discussion > forums. > > Additionally, we will continue to offer our other DOTNET-related lists, as > well as a few new lists. Please > visit http://discuss.develop.com for a complete listing. > > SUBSCRIBE > To subscribe, either go to http://discuss.develop.com and use the Web > interface, or send an email from the > account you'll be posting with to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with a > message body of: > subscribe list-name firstname lastname > > UNSUBSCRIBE > To unsubscribe, either go to http://discuss.develop.com and use the Web > interface, or send an email from the > account you've been posting with to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with a > message body of: > signoff list-name > > If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to inquire. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Shannon Ahern > DevelopMentor WebMistress > http://www.develop.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > "Ubergeeks know the answer to everything is 42, that anger leads to the > dark side, and that there is only one ring to rule them all and in the > darkness bind them. > Are you an übergeek? Don't think you are. Know you are." > --www.thinkgeek.com > > You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or > subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
