On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:21:16 EST, MVallevand wrote: > On 12/29/06, Hugo van der Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cross posting is usualy considered a NO-GO for anything but announcements > > on which no response is required. > > My recent FLAC message is cross posted and I would take a response > from either community. I'm sorry if you find this inappropriate. > > Martin
Allow me to throw in a bit of history here... The devel mailing list has existed a lot longer than the users list. As a consequence, many users subscribed to it early on, and never unsubscribed. And a lot of them never resubscribed to the users list once it was created (note the subscriber count is 256 for devel and 158 for users). So there are a lot of users on the devel mailing list. So it should be obvious where to post when targeting developers, but it is less clear when you are targeting users. Perhaps we should prod everyone on the devel list to subscribe to the users list again. As a general rule of thumb, however, I'd say if it improves the project to cross post, then do so. I'm assuming such postings will be rare. As to your specific FLAC posting, however, the problem is not your initial cross-posted message. That seems reasonable, since you're proposing adding a new feature and want to make sure you're doing it in a way people will find acceptable (especially since you're new to FLAC). The problem is the discussion that may follow. You'll either annoy lots of people with an entire cross-posted discussion, or you'll split the discussion between different groups on the two lists. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
