Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
This is not an appropriate mail for infrastructure@, so I move this topics to [EMAIL PROTECTED] About the moderation Issue, please go on talking at infrastructure@ David, you are right. I'd been fed up and tired. I am willing to quit the job of the editor of newsletter. I won't post to

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
Nope. I have to resign. The difference of the e-mail culture. We, Japanese, do not complain about the volume of the mails (especially when they are useful and informative) and I am accustomed to that culture. Someone like me (who have such a mind) should not have become the editor of that

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Abele
On 20/10/2003, at 01:40, Noel J. Bergman wrote: The original intention of the newsletter was Newsletter will be one of the *glue* of the communities in the ASF umbrella ... It seems that the newsletter itself is going to the contrary. The newsletter is doing that job. All that was asked is that

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Berin Lautenbach
G'day Tetsuya, I'm with Noel here. The newsletter is great, it's just that people who subscribe to announce@ expect to get short e-mails telling them how to find things. They don't expect large e-mails with major content. So don't stop the overall newsletter - your efforts are valued :. I

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Hi Tetsuya! Many people is very interested and apreciate your effort in creating a kind of glue for all the projects under the Apache umbrella. Here include me too, for sure! Tetsuya Kitahata dijo: Nope. I have to resign. The difference of the e-mail culture. Hmm I can't believe that. :(

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Berin Lautenbach
From: Erik Abele [EMAIL PROTECTED] Announce@ is for announcements, community@ for community musings, and *perhaps* newsletter@ is for the newsletter. That's it, simple, eh? +1. (Can still put a short note in announce@) Cheers, Berin This message was sent through MyMail

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Joshua Slive
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: Nope. I have to resign. Well, thanks for your contribution Tetsuya. I think it is a worthwhile project, and I hope you reconsider or someone picks it up. I do believe that there have been some people getting a little too picky about policies. In

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Glen Stampoultzis
At 12:41 PM 20/10/2003, you wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: Nope. I have to resign. Well, thanks for your contribution Tetsuya. I think it is a worthwhile project, and I hope you reconsider or someone picks it up. I do believe that there have been some people getting a

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Joshua Slive wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tetsuya Kitahata wrote: Nope. I have to resign. Well, thanks for your contribution Tetsuya. I think it is a worthwhile project, and I hope you reconsider or someone picks it up. I do believe that there have been some people getting a little too

RE: [RT] About Tetsuya decision....

2003-10-20 Thread Noel J. Bergman
On the other way, I wonder how Tetsuya gives the job too easily. There was no strong criticism. Simply the request that instead of the entire newsletter, an announcement be posted. Other than that, the newsletter (and Tetsuya's handling of it) have received praise and strong support.

Re: [RT] About Tetsuya decision....

2003-10-20 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Noel J. Bergman wrote: On the other way, I wonder how Tetsuya gives the job too easily. There was no strong criticism. I disagree. What I have percieved is quite strong criticism and something that in some cultures could have been seen as derision. All this for what I really think is a *trivial*

Re: [RT] About Tetsuya decision....

2003-10-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 05:38:20 +0100 David Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other way, I wonder how Tetsuya gives the job too easily. There was no strong criticism. Simply the request that instead of the entire newsletter, an announcement be posted. Other than that, the newsletter

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread John Keyes
Tetsuya, Noel J. Bergman wrote: You did a great job, as usual, on the newsletter, and you should continue to do so, IMO. +1, your contribution is very much appreciated. -John K - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Stephen McConnell
Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: I very much enjoyed the hard work that Tetsuya put into the newsletter and I'm very sad to see him step down because of such puny reasons as to which mailing list this newsletter should be sent. Me too on both points. Steve. -- Stephen J. McConnell mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [RT] About Tetsuya decision....

2003-10-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 05:38:20 +0100 David Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other way, I wonder how Tetsuya gives the job too easily. There was no strong criticism. Simply the request that instead of the entire newsletter, an announcement be posted. Other than that, the newsletter

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:37:23 +0200 (Subject: RE: Inappropriate use of announce@) Sander Striker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also consider the people that are subscribed to the announce list, all 8304 of them. 8304 Great! I have heard from Noel that the number of subscribers to announce@ was

Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Abele
As the discussion now shows *nobody* is in favour of Tetsuyas resignation and *everybody* appreciate[sd] his efforts but it also seems that there exist some basic misunderstandings, at least I've lost the point somewhere last night... On 20/10/2003, at 10:44, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: And

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Sander Striker wrote: Also consider the people that are subscribed to the announce list, all 8304 of them. I'm sure they didn't sign up to an announcement list to receive 43k emails. If they had wanted that, they would have subscribed to a newsletter... ;). after any announcement to any

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Joshua Slive
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: long ago, when the original httpd announce@apache.org got repurposed into a general announcement list, did we say anything about what subscribers could expect? do we say anything about it now on the page where people learn about the lists?

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Rob Oxspring
I've been trying to stay out of all this but the logic here just made me bite and chime in. - Original Message - From: Erik Abele [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: community@apache.org Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 12:38 PM Subject: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@ [snip]

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
I recently read that the smaller an issue is, the bigger a discussion it gets, as everyone has something to say. This issue must be pretty trivial then. In any case, who decides? What is the PMC or something overlooking these things, that can give a reasonable decision and stop all this

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Tetsuya Kitahata
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:13:35 +0200 (Subject: Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@) Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently read that the smaller an issue is, the bigger a discussion it gets, as everyone has something to say. This issue must be pretty

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Abele
On 20/10/2003, at 04:43, Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: Well, the threads on this and other similar topics showed that the majority of our community has a completely different point of view when it comes to information reception. Compared to whom? To you, me or Tetsuyo? EVERYBODY HAS HIS/HER OWN

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Abele
On 20/10/2003, at 04:44, Rob Oxspring wrote: we know that everybody has his/her own preferences Again I would have thought that most of us are grown up enough to realise that. Therefore I wrote '... we [the ASF community] know ...' :) so why don't we just go with a pull-model instead of pushing

Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread André Malo
* Henning Schmiedehausen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I liked the idea of a general announce list where all this stuff is sent and let my mail client sort it out. This is the 21st century. If you have bandwidth, disk space or download time concerns, you're either not using the right technology or

Re: Information channels, Re: Inappropriate use of announce@

2003-10-20 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Henning Schmiedehausen wrote: Any by trying to build an ideal world for yourself, you basically killed whatever enthusiasm or dedication Tetsuya showed. Because you offered no support or at least positive feedback but only we don't like this format, this way of posting, this content, change

Fwd: Book about The Apache Software Foundation

2003-10-20 Thread Ben Hyde
Clearly this mailing list needs a little levity today. Without futher ado I forward this lame solicitation... As one of my correspondents commented Clear Mr. Miller is not a native human-speaker, in fact he fails the Turning test Begin forwarded message: From: Stewart Miller [EMAIL