How about auto-subscribing the readership of this list to all three of the new ones and letting us pick where we DON'T want to be? I'm betting the vast majority will want all of them....
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ahern, Shannon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > 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.
