On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com > wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Matthias Leisi <matth...@leisi.net> > wrote: > > They could have communicated, as in "listen folks, we are going to make a > > critical change that will affect mailing lists (etc...) in four weeks > time". > > communicated it where? > "The Internet". A blog entry and a post to a few key relevant mailing lists would have resulted in the message spreading far better than it was. There's no way that they could have communicated it to every mailing list admin on the planet, but they could have at least given a heads-up to some major parts of the community. The great thing about the Internet is that if it's important enough to be shared, you don't need to try too hard to make that happen - others will look after it for you. But you need to make the effort to get it started, and Yahoo didn't do that here (or at least, they did, but they did it by actually making the change by which time it was too late!) Scott
