On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 13:09 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > 2. This list, and every list I've ever been on, has its "moments". > These "moments" can be protracted but are few and far between on this > list, IMHO. So, if someone just happens to join the list during one of > these moments, they may be turned off. I think that would be the > exception and not the rule. Going back and looking at the archives > would be one way to decide for oneself if this is true. > > 3. Guidelines are nice. Most of the time they are not needed and most > of the time they are not read by new comers before posting. > > 4. The written language can be a tricky thing in which to impart > emotion/intention. Aside from everyone clearly marking things "sarcasm, > rant, etc." it is quite easy to take things the wrong way or to take a > simple thing and blow it out of proportion. This makes #2 unavoidable, > IMHO. This can be especially true when not everyone on this list has a > common language/culture. I do think these three problems are exacerbated by the nature of email and mailing lists. You send a mail, you can't take it back. Once a mail goes out, people will have received it, so a moderator can't go back after the fact and stop posting on a given topic. Actually there are no per-topic controls on a mailing list. Lately I've been thinking a lot about how alternative interfaces to mailing lists might improve some of the problems inherent to them. I actually set up a blog gateway and a forum gateway to the Fedora design list. While it was primarily to solve a different problem (the largest pool of designers out there for us to recruit from aren't familiar with mailing lists at all), it might help here. If folks think it's a good idea I'd be happy to help having something similar set up for this list. This is the blog one we have: http://linuxgrrl.com/drupal/ And this is the forum one we have: http://linuxgrrl.com/drupal/forum/1 ~m -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
