[TriLUG] Don't get involved in Trilug...you might post *gasp* off topic.

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:46, Mike Johnson wrote:

> dev@ was created because people wanted it, but there's no 
> sub-committee.  It was thought that having the list would -increse-
> the discussion of the topic, allowing people to feel more free to
> post new questions/topics that only a few people would be interested
> in (and given that most people follow the 'don't post to the list 
> unless there's likely to be interest' rule of mailing lists). The 
> dev list has worked wonderfully that way.

Note that dev has worked so well that a lot of the people on it
are putting together a book discussion group.  First book: Design
Patterns.

I have to wonder, though, if the success of the dev group is
more because dev is a wide topic that can encompass lots of
things while the hosting list is a more focused list (which
doesn't yet actually have anything to work on, so it's
all planning right now anyway).

Tanner
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