Re: Lists

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote: > John Donagher wrote: > > This has probably been mentioned before, but I think the naming of php-dev is > > way misleading. It's funny that people get so ripped when someone sends an > > off-topic question to this list. Someone who doesn't read the descriptions may > > very well take php-dev to mean PHP development. This is ambiguous; it doesn't > > make any distinction between developing with php and developing the language > > itself. Whining about people not reading the descriptions won't change it; get > > over it. > > These messages most likely do not come from people who have looked at the php.net > list of lists at all, as the dev list is hidden way down while php-general is in > a *much* more prominent place. > > My theory is that these messages come from people who have found the > list address in archived messages while searching for php related > topics using a search engine. We have the same effect on the php-lang > list which isn't even advertised at all on php.net. > > So i guess renaming the dev list would only help for a short period of time, > while mandatory subscription via the php.net support pages is the only > way to get rid of this special problem. +1 on mandatory subscription. The page could say "if you want help with your homework then go to the users list" :)