I recognize it's a problem, but I'm a believer that we'll continue to get inappropriate emails no matter what we call the lists. Rather than undergo the inconvenience, an alternative might be to better highlight the lists' purpose: An occasional email reminding people what the main ones are for; a more prominent description on the subscription page, etc. That won't stop the mis-aimed emails either, but it might lessen them. We'll still need to politely redirect queries to the right place, which a few of you seem to do very gracefully at the moment anyway.
-Jonathan On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Eric Dalquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I think that is why before the move of lists to UW uportal-dev required > approval to join which included reading a page about the intent of the list. > Renaming may be the way to go but we need to make sure we know what we're > getting into with changing documentation and such. > > -Eric > > > Cris J Holdorph wrote: > >> I wonder if we should consider some list renaming. >> >> People consistently post to uportal-dev with questions that are about them >> "developing" their portal. Look at the list name, think about what those >> people are doing, it's really not a stretch. "uportal-user" sounds like it >> might be for people to learn how to login, move portlets around, etc. >> "uportal-dev" sounds more reasonable when I need to ask a question about >> how to write a new portlet for my portal. >> >> I wonder if we should have names that help make the distinction between >> "development of the core framework services" and "development and >> configuration of portals using uPortal" better. >> >> For example, what if "uportal-dev" was renamed "uportal-framework" and >> "uportal-user" was named "uportal-admin". I don't really like the name >> "uportal-admin" but you get the idea. It just feels like the names we >> currently have will continue to cause us trouble, because they do not match >> well with the intent of the content to be posted to them, at least from a >> new-user-to-the-community perspective. >> >> ---- Cris J H >> >> -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
