New lists (was [PHP] Attitude of B van Ouwerkerk)

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, B. van Ouwerkerk wrote: > There's nothing wrong with being a newbie.. the only newbie-problem I > see/have is the lazy one.. ask ask ask ask without taking the time to read > the manual or to do a search in the archive. Sure there are newbies who > read the manual.. get some tutorials.. thats good. They should get all the > support they need.. Unfortunately this kind of thing happens on all the mailing lists I've seen that are devoted to questions. The real problem here is that the list is simply too busy. I can do no more then skim the subject lines and then usually delete all of it unless something jumps out at me. It might be helpful if some new mailing lists were created, it wouldn't be a perfect solution but it would help if there were some degree of self selecting behavior possible. Currenty all questions go to php-general. If there were, say, a php-newuser and a php-questions list then perhaps php-general could be used for slightly higher level discussions. Actually its probably too late to "save" php-general, hard to get people to change. Maybe a new list that caters to a higher level of discussion, say php-authoring or the like? Just a thought. So much tends to get lost or over looked in high volume mailing lists. ________________________________________________________________________ Darren Henderson darren@bmv.state.me.us darren.henderson@state.me.us