[RkWard-devel] Mailing list(s)

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

On Thursday 29 March 2007 17:02, Stefan Roediger wrote:
> Having such a list would certainly be nice though spam wasn't bothering me
> to much. But I don't think that I have the time for frequent moderation but
> on a rare random base in future (therefore not a real Yes and not a real No
> for moderation).
> Do you really think there are so many users which would need such a list
> (besides the spam)? I'm not entirely sure if work should be put into this.

Well, your guess is as good as mine, really, but here's a bit more elaboration 
on the reasons for my proposal:

1) It might be a psychological thing, a hesitation to ask user questions on a 
list called "devel". But I can't really judge whether this is an issue.
2a) In the past few months rkward-devel has grown to a considerable volume. A 
users list would - initially - be much lower volume, so might be nice for 
those who are interested in the most important news, but not every little 
detail of development. In the long run, a users' list might actually have a 
higher volume than devel, but then we can always add something 
like "rkward-announce", if/when the need arises.
2b) We did have around half a dozen unsubscribes during the past two or three 
months. There could be many reasons for those unsubscribes, but it's a least 
temporally related to 2a.

About spam and moderation: Well, this is optional, but I did get a bit annoyed 
with the recent level of spam on the list (particularily the portion that 
successfully bypassed sourceforge's and my mail provider's filter is 
annoying). We could almost entirely get rid of this, if we could filter out 
all mails with a .gif attachment, but it seems the list management software 
only allows to strip off the attachment, not discard the entire mail... So 
that's why I proposed to use moderation. I don't think a lot of moderation 
would be needed, but there'd still need to be at least two or three 
volunteers for this in total, to make sure moderation latency does not become 
too long.

Well, so how about some of those that are subscribed but usually just read and 
not post: Would you like to have a users' list?

Regards
Thomas
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