Am 03.08.2011 16:13, schrieb Simon King: > Having a combined list for sage-nt, sage-algebra and sage-combinat- > devel would (according to figures from the past 6 months) result in a > list with little more than 7 posts per day. That should be small > enough so that all people interested in abstract nonsense could easily > follow - actually more easily than with three lists. In particular > when interested people are only subscribed to two of them. +1 > III. > Moving sage-solaris, sage-flame, sage-marketing and sage-edu to sage- > devel would yield an increment of (in average) less than one post per > day on sage-devel. I believe nobody can reasonably say that such a > little increment is a "flood with tons of technical details". A single > additional post per day could easily be filtered manually (i.e., > ignored), if necessary. -1 I don't see a common ground for sage-develop and sage-maketing. Looks like list should get mixed just to reduce the number of lists. > IV. > sage-marketing and sage-edu concern topics which are perhaps not in > the centre of everybody's research interests. However, most are at a > university and could occasionally contribute to sage-edu, and I guess > that most people would at least have an opinion on marketing and could > occasionally contribute to sage-marketing (ok, that could be "painting > a bike shed"). Hence, why hiding these two topics from a larger > audience, putting them into a small list? > > V. > sage-windows discusses a topic that is said to be a major goal of > Sage. Hence, why not underlining its importance? Why not raising > alertness by exposing it to the "big audience"? maybe it would be a better idea to create a new list like sage-porting where all discussions about ports to diferent OSs take place.
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