NZPHPUG is great!! If you have a question you will almost always get a pretty decent amount of help within a day. Gmail is a great mail client to use with any google group. It will help fix the problem of wading through the sometimes inevitable OT stuff that goes on (I also second Harvey that OT banter can be quite important). I hope your students continue to come here and contribute, and I also hope you will keep recommending them.
Keep it coming!! Cam On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Harvey Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, I find this list an incredible resource and have pointed > plenty of people here. > > I consider the off-topic banter to be as important as the PHP discussion > - it's nice to be able to get answers to non-PHP questions without > having to sign up to another specialist group. Most of us are web > developers, so generally you get a decent answer to a CSS / Apache / > MySQL / other question pretty quickly. > > Every so often you get the pot being stirred on something like tables, > and yes, that thread (while a valid topic) took a little long to die. > But that's certainly not the norm. > > I'd agree that it's not great that students aren't staying subscribed, > but it sounds like the concerns can be addressed by using threading, > filters or digests. I have everything redirecing into an IMAP folder, > and I just ignore the threads that I don't find interesting. > > They are definitely missing out by not being subscribed - they lose an > amazing resource for getting answers to hard questions, miss out on > learning new stuff that is happening in the wider industry, building > connections with other developers, and also the humourous stuff that > comes through every so often. > > I'm all for guidelines, but not so much rules. > > Harvey. > > Mark Rickerby wrote: > > If you're not feeling like this list is worth following, or are not > > getting what you want out of it there are two options: > > > > a) Unsubscribe > > > > b) Start a new thread with an interesting topic, or question. > > > > I recommend b). Many people here have learned PHP and web apps the > > hard way, and are pretty good at giving a helping hand, plus there is > > a wide range of different philosophies and approaches to development > > and frameworks and CMS's on this list, so you can get contrasting and > > alternative points of view on most matters. > > > > > > > > > -- > Harvey Kane > www.ragepank.com > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: +649 950 4133 > Mob: +6421 811 951 > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
