I saw this on programming.reddit.com and wondered if the NYPHP mailing list had any thoughts on the subject.
Particularly: "The mailing lists were never easy to read through but if a man put his mind to it and used the delete button swiftly enough you could actually get something out of them and maybe even find a reason to stay on. But ever since everybody in North America cheaped out and started sending all the work to India the mailing lists of every major product have been polluted with the Sanjays and Prashants of this world asking questions that make me wonder why the he[ck] we're sending out our prized projects to these seemingly incompetent people." http://arsenalist.com/2007/08/14/outsourcing-is-killing-it/ There are a lot of over-generalizations made by this blogger, but some of what he says is true (at least, in 100% of the mailing lists I'm subscribed to, especially PHP-related lists). Reddit thread: http://programming.reddit.com/info/2gjux/comments I know I myself have been slightly frustrated by the volume of mail on the NYPHP list that makes me wonder if the submitter even bothered to make a trip to Google before asking questions on the list. - B.D. _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
