On 2 July 2010 16:51, Vincent Snijders <[email protected]> wrote: > And by no means others must be forced to receive and scan off topic > mails on the Lazarus list.
And then comes the other problem.... What you might consider "off topic", I and others might consider "on topic". This is what Jürgen and I am talking about (including lost mails due to multiple lists and info fragmentation). I have been through all of this with fpGUI and tiOPF. We had many areas of posting questions. Forums, IRC, private email, newsgroups, mailing lists, SourceForge Forums etc... Many newcomers asked the same questions over and over, because the information that are looking for was already covered, they just couldn't find it. Information fragmentation. THAT is why tiOPF and fpGUI now have one single port of call - *one mailing list*. That's it! If you don't like a message thread, don't read it! This will teach posters to also use correct and descriptive message subject lines, otherwise they don't get feedback. Everybody is used to managing emails is some way or form. Nobody can fully stop spam messages. Just like you manage those, so you can manage other messages in a mailing list. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
