--- Mike Woodring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As just one example, one of the things that made this list so valuable in > the early days was the contribution of members of the various .NET > development teams. This list was effectively a direct pipeline into those > teams. Participants could pose questions or bug notes and get replies > directly from the dev in charge of that area. But as traffic has soard, > MSFT involvement has diminished. Please note that Microsoft's involvement > isn't the only involvement we're interested in - it's just a typical example > of something we've seen and heard about from many people we come into > contact with at conferences, in classes, and through email. > > By partitioning the list into more focused communities, we hope to encourage > those wayward participants to rejoin and further increase the value of the > list to the entire subscriber base. For their part, Microsoft has committed > to rejoining our new communities as active contributors under the new split. > We hope that everyone else that has left the list will also be encouraged to > resubscribe for the benefit of all of us.
You've sold it to me. :-) Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
