My hope was that differentiating the lists Struts might make the email load more tractable for everyone.
Struts gurus might very well look at a new list for newbies and choose not to subscribe. I don't see this as a problem. Struts gurus helping newbies is a wonderful thing, but we're all volunteers here and if the gurus would prefer not to be on the newbie list, they should be empowered to make that decision. It is true that differentiating the lists might lower the threshold for newbie effort prior to newbie posts. However, the existing infrastructure for encouraging everyone to think, read, Google, etc. before posting would still be in place and could apply equally to the struts-user-newbies list. However, separating out a newbies list would allow newbies to helped by those Struts gurus who are most generous, patient, or have whatever other attributes that make them want to help newbies, while not annoying other Struts subscribers who are less interested in this. This accommodation might help to preserve the friendly and supportive character of the list for newbies even as Struts continues to grow. What I think differentiating the lists would do is empower subscribers to separate out the two streams and manage them independently. It feels to me like there really are two simultaneous streams of messages on this list. When things get crazy at work I could choose to fail to keep up with the struts-user-newbie list and delete the messages unread without feeling that I was risking something I'd need to know. Or, for that matter, when things get crazy at work I could choose to come home and see if there's someone to be helped out on the struts-user-newbie list, letting the more demanding struts-user material go until things settle down again. I don't know for sure how people would use the ability to differentiate, but I think volume on the list is sufficient that it would be worth giving subscribers this ability. > My point is: will Struts gurus that participate this list subscribe to > one more list? I think > they are too busy for increasing their email load a bit more. > Newbies could get a better help if, before posting to this list, they > did homework: i mean, read > Struts docs, Google, etc. I'm not sure about this number, it is just a > guessing, but based on my > experience in this list, 95% of the questions are already answered. You > just have to find that > answer, and that is what Google is for. > > My two cents. > > Cheers, > Daniel Silva. > > > > --- Daniel Henrique Alves Lima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It sounds good to me ! > > > > Andrew Petro wrote: > > > > >Incidentally, have there been any thoughts on this list of > differentiating > > >out a struts-user-newbie list from the main struts-user list? > > > > > >I think it's wonderful to have a welcoming place for newbies to post > > >questions, but I think it might also be useful to be able to > differentiate > > >opportunities to help out newbies / be helped as a newbie from > > >opportunities to ask more difficult questions / discuss more advanced > > >features of the framework. > > > > > >My two cents. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Search - Find what youre looking for faster > http://search.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
