On 20 Mar 2008, at 13:38, James Hawkins wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Alan McKinnon
<alan.mckinnon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mailing lists - we know 'em and love 'em. Nuff said.
The bit I don't get is interfacing the two. It's like interfacing a
brothel with a sex-education class - superficially similar but
when you
look closer you see they actually have nothing in common...
If they weren't linked, all of us ML users would never get over to the
forum to help exactly the type of people that need our help.
I wonder what percentage of the ML users have responded to a help
request that originated from the forum? It seems there are only a
small percentage of current ML users who have both the knowledge and
the patience to deal with typical newbie questions posted on the
forum. Of that small number, some would be willing to register and
use the forum, and some would only help newbies if they can do so via
an email list. For this small percentage of ML users who would help
newbies, but only if via a ML, we must subject all ML users to the
crud that comes from the forum, plus the never ending back and forth
on the pros and cons of linking the forum and ML.
Why not create a second ML - wine-newbies, and link that list to the
forum. Unlink this list from the forum. Those ML users who have the
patience to help newbies, but prefer doing so via a ML can subscribe
to wine-newbies. Those of us who prefer things the way they were can
return to peace and quiet on this ML.
--
Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada
