On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Sharad Birmiwal <[email protected]> wrote: >> Purpose : trying to think, how many mailing list will be good enough >> for India , so one can subscribe email from a particular category.. >> just thinking.. for a unified mailing-list/forum, This will reduce >> cross-posting... Ex - particular mailing list for low-traffic >> announcement mailing list will be useful rather then posting on each >> and every possible mailing list.. > > If the point is to improve how things are done, IMHO, I don't think > mailing lists are enough (though they certainly are fairly popular). I > think a better solution would be a crossover between a forum and a > mailing list. It is futile to discuss certain problems only to have > the same question repeated several times. Which also brings me to two > other category of emails we sometimes get on the mailing list -- > repeat emails and spam.
Repeat Email is duty of User,, they should write tutorial on Wiki or just give a link to better tutorial.. Spam - To a level, This mailing list get least spam which ever possible in any LUG mailing list.. > > The interaction with the communication system should stress on looking > up prior discussions as well, in a well categorized way. May be the > notion of keywords or categories help (slashdot?). Much like stick it > notes. It has been attempted before in mailing lists but it doesn't > catch on. The same thing has been stressed in this thread earlier as > well. What we should realize is that clearly there is something > lacking in the mailing list mechanism which people, sometimes > unconsciously, are trying to fix with such attempts. > > Sorry for digressing again. But I am trying to think a better solution for a single platform where whole FOSS Community of India can work and collaborate in a better way.. Also the size of this community is getter bigger and bigger daily so we need to think on it. -- LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
