On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 13:14 +1000, Will Briggs wrote: > Oh dear. "slight delay" in an email list forum? That's like saying > "you can take part in this face-to-face conversation but you have to > wait 30 seconds before you can say anything" In effect you reduce that > person to an on-looker who can throw in the occassional comment. The > comments themselves are reduced in their relevance or impact because by > the time they are heard, the conversation has moved on.
On a mailing list? We're not talking IRC here. We're talking mailing lists. I can take a nap, a full 8 hour sleep, or many times even take the WEEKEND OFF FROM GENTOO and still manage to come back and give useful input. Email isn't exactly instant and nobody who runs a mail server will even pretend that it is. Adding a, say, 3 hour delay between posting and the timeout, doesn't seem to me like it would affect much of anything. After all, I managed to not touch my email since Friday and I am still managing to participate in this conversation. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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