On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:46, Mike Johnson wrote: > dev@ was created because people wanted it, but there's no > sub-committee. It was thought that having the list would -increse- > the discussion of the topic, allowing people to feel more free to > post new questions/topics that only a few people would be interested > in (and given that most people follow the 'don't post to the list > unless there's likely to be interest' rule of mailing lists). The > dev list has worked wonderfully that way.
Note that dev has worked so well that a lot of the people on it are putting together a book discussion group. First book: Design Patterns. I have to wonder, though, if the success of the dev group is more because dev is a wide topic that can encompass lots of things while the hosting list is a more focused list (which doesn't yet actually have anything to work on, so it's all planning right now anyway). Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little order, will lose both and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. -- Justice Thurgood Marshall, 1989
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