Re: I thought this was a PHP developers list
| From: | Jeff Wilhelm | Date: | Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:44:13 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: I thought this was a PHP developers list | ||
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> As someone has said the list is just too big. How about having
> general list 1, 2, and 3, each with the same focus and topic? You get
> randomly assigned to one or the other when you subscribe. For this to
> work the unsubscribe must work to remove you from all lists. You may
> want to allow the option to join all. Would it work?
I don't think that would solve anything. In fact, it'd make the traffic
problem even worse, because people would attempt to post two ALL THREE lists
instead of just one so they'd get more responses. That would be three times
the traffic. Also, I think that it's a good idea to have one list, because I
personally learn a lot simply by lurking and reading. If there were three
lists, and I belongded to only one I'd miss 2/3 of the responses, and if I
joined all three I'd get 3x the traffic for the same responses as if there
was only one list.
Did that make any sense?
-Jeff