[wp-hackers] PROPOSAL: Use sunmanagers etiquette to help reduce list S/N ratio

Doug Stewart zamoose at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 13:24:16 GMT 2007


On 10/6/07, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
> I personally don't like #4. Sure, it'd cut down a lot on the traffic, but
> then I'd have to rely on the original poster to make sure my thoughts /
> points got to the rest of the list. That could take a lot of time, leave out
> some ideas, etc. Plus the "SUMMARY" thing might screw those of us over using
> clients like GMail which auto-thread e-mails (I believe it puts heavy weight
> on the subject line, but I could be wrong).
>
> If I didn't want tons of e-mails, I wouldn't have joined a high-traffic
> mailing list. ;)
>

I was thinking of #4 applying in terms of the support-ish requests
that come in.  I'm not suggesting squelching architecture/vision
discussions, but ones in which a "try this!" "nope, didn't work." kind
of thread develops.

-- 
-Doug

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