I like the idea of splitting topics into different lists. I also like Anatole's suggestions for list types.
Flexcoders has become to "over-bloated".. I would be in favour for looking at topics that I'm interested in. Perhaps this will get more of the experienced contributors back on the list. Imagine if OSFlash had only one mailing list. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Anatole Tartakovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear All, > Flexcoders has huge problem. In the last 15 month it is very much > stagnant in terms of message count and participation. It is not growing and > dropping members as fast as it gets them. > > I believe this group has overgrown the optimal size about a year ago and > needs to be divided in more focused smaller groups. My mail box get 100+ > messages a day on all kinds of topic - unless I can spend 30+ minutes that > day to sort them out it goes directly into garbage can. Most people in the > company unsubscribed from it 18 month ago. Most of veteran developers I know > either unsubscribed or stopped looking in this mess greatly diminishing the > quality of the responses. As a result group mostly host new developers and > looses most of experienced ones after very short period of time. > > Further delay of breaking this group hinders usefulness of the group for all > of us as now we have significant amount of users that are being forced out. > I believe it is time to archive flexcoders and branch (12?) targeted new > user groups > > I would like to see people suggesting user subgroups and WiKi topics for > Flex community site to go with each group - providing best posts in more > systematic way. > > I suggest the following Yahoo groups ( created couple for your > convenience). > > Flex101: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flex101/ > > Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > EnterpriseFlex: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/enterpriseflex/ > > Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > FlexUI > FlexDesign > > FlexSDK > FlexDeployment > > FlexFlash > > FlexFrameworks > > FlexBestPractices > > EnterpriseFlex: > > FlexBlazeDS: > > weborb: > > Sincerely, > Anatole Tartakovsky > Farata Systems >
