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

[Craig Duncan]

As an advocate for the creation of the dev list, I had no idea that it would 
turn into a "Reading Circle" list. But rather it turn up there than on the 
general tri-lug list of which the posts are way too numerous to really keep 
up.

I like the idea of multiple lists as I can simply dump each list into a 
folder and quickly peruse each in a more resonable manner than I could if all 
lists were combined. 

I like the diversity on all lists, but I do like it being digestible without 
wasting too much time. If the dev at trilig.org list spends most of it's time 
organizing a book reading get together, I think, good for those involved, it 
is easy to get myself involved or ignore those postings.

If on the other hand, I cannot distinguish the threads of interest with ease, 
due to an over abundance of diverse postings, I will more than likely just 
delete the lot so as not to waste time.

Then again, I like organization for my incoming mail. Those who don't, are 
more than likely going to take a different view. In which case I wonder ...

... should we have a reading circle list?

 
On Tuesday 19 February 2002 04:22 pm, you wrote:
> 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).
>
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