Re: The 8th airing of the msysGit herald

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 6, 2008, 02:29 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803060327050.15786@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <5fc54b450803051803t4dda4341ue3ac403c742f1903@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Jim Raden wrote:

> Perhaps adopting a convention for the subject line, like "Usage 
> question: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"? We're still a small list, so it 
> wouldn't be horribly cumbersome.

I fail to see how that would accomplish something different from two mailing list, except the very likely chance that people are unaware of that convention.

> If the list grew beyond 150 or so 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number> active users, or if the 
> signal:noise ratio grew too low, perhaps then that would be a good time 
> to readdress the issue.

Recently Shawn mentioned that there are 853 members.

> I confess that I haven't had to deal with such things before, so I'm not 
> familiar with the practices that may work in other groups faced with a 
> similar issue.

<tongue-in-cheek>It is pretty easy to tell that somebody top-posting is not a regular on this list</tongue-in-cheek>

Don't get me wrong, I'd _love_ to see a proper solution to the problem, alas, I do not see one yet.

Ciao, Dscho