Re: [MOVED] Renaming of mailing lists to avoid user confusion

2008-08-20 Thread Marty Alchin
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Tom Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Renaming issues aside — am I the only one who is bothered by how many > messages-per-day -users gets vs. noticing "interesting" topics (where > "interesting" depends on the individual, of course)? django-users has > become su

Re: [MOVED] Renaming of mailing lists to avoid user confusion

2008-08-20 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Tom Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As an aside (and perhaps this is a topic for another thread), I really > don't like that "meta" discussion gets shoved off into -users; > django-users is *far* too high-traffic, and I don't keep myself > subscribed to it becau

Re: [MOVED] Renaming of mailing lists to avoid user confusion

2008-08-20 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Tom Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me propose a stopgap: edit the django-users and django-developers > pages to state, in large bold text, what the purpose of each list is > (this is "edit welcome message" in Google Groups). Let's see if that > helps any,

Re: [MOVED] Renaming of mailing lists to avoid user confusion

2008-08-19 Thread Marty Alchin
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Tom Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And this *isn't* a bikeshed argument. There is obviously substantial > confusion over what the terms "users" and "developers" mean in the > context of Django. We're attracting *lots* of people (3849 on > -developers, 10431

[MOVED] Renaming of mailing lists to avoid user confusion

2008-08-19 Thread Tom Tobin
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please take this thread to django-users. This list is for the internal > development of django and this thread doesn't contribute to that. Done. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:14 AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]