Hi, Gaveen Prabhasara wrote: > If someone does not want to receive mail from a mailing list, why in the > first place would they subscribe? Even if they did for some reason, why > wouldn't they use the same method to unsubscribe or change the mail > delivery mode, and pester everyone with their pleads?
While I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, and a bit of self-righteousness goes a long way to strengthening the bond in a group sometimes, I think that different communities (and specifically the kernel community) have different ideas about what constitutes "low-volume" mailing lists. meego-dev is a high-volume mailing list, getting an average of 25 emails a day, and many people can't handle that much list email, in spite of wanting to contribute to the project. Now, someone's going to reply saying 25 emails a day is low volume. And indeed, most people active on this list are probably adept at dealing with between 100 and 1000 emails a day, in the same way that some people can handle being subscribed to a couple of hundred people on Twitter. Most people can't, and bearing that in mind might be useful. Using community mailing lists is not innate, it's learned. So sharing tips & teaching people to handle a higher volume of email (rather than complaining about the uselessness of such people) might be useful, no? Cheers, Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: [email protected] Jabber: [email protected] _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
