[RkWard-devel] Mailing list(s)

[Stefan Roediger]

Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2007 17:47 schrieb 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.

Well might be true.

> 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.

I see.

> 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?

For the reasons provided above I consent.

>
> Regards
> Thomas

Stefan