[LISTEN UP] Mailing List Usage

["Craig R. McClanahan" <cr...@apache.org>]

Even though it's Friday, I feel compelled to make a comment about "Friday
mail" here.  Please listen.

As many of you have noted, STRUTS-USER has a slightly different feel than
a lot of user-support-type mailing lists -- with a little humor and off
topic discussions of interesting related stuff (like XP last week)
creeping in.  Partly, this feel was a deliberate attempt on my part to
make the Struts community a little more human-feeling (and in particular,
as a reaction to some of the open source developers who are total jerks
when dealing with "mere users" :-).

Over the last two years, the balance has been pretty good overall -- new
and old users get help, people are treated (for the most part) nicely, and
we get to have a little fun now and again.

Over the last week, the balance has tipped -- when the volume of OT
messages in the last two days is substantially higher than the number of
on topic questions and answers, you know there is a problem.

I'm not interested in squashing the fun.  I am interested in going back to
the balance we had before -- mostly on topic, a few human interest topics
(on Fridays mostly), and useful interaction on the topic of the frameork.
It doesn't take a lot of abuse of ~1800 people's mailboxes to destroy the
sense of community that we've worked hard to build.

OK guys -- can we go back to Struts now?

Craig McClanahan



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Re: [LISTEN UP] Mailing List Usage

[Michael Delamere <ho...@michael-delamere.de>]

I agree entirely!

This list is enjoyable because it is quite humerous now and then and we all
agree that the Friday off-topics can be quite a laugh!

I also agree with Craig though that a healthy balance should be maintained.
The last couple of days were quite extreme when it comes to off-topic (and
silly off-topic) messages.

Regards,

Michael


----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <cr...@apache.org>
To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <st...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 6:34 PM
Subject: [LISTEN UP] Mailing List Usage


> Even though it's Friday, I feel compelled to make a comment about "Friday
> mail" here.  Please listen.
>
> As many of you have noted, STRUTS-USER has a slightly different feel than
> a lot of user-support-type mailing lists -- with a little humor and off
> topic discussions of interesting related stuff (like XP last week)
> creeping in.  Partly, this feel was a deliberate attempt on my part to
> make the Struts community a little more human-feeling (and in particular,
> as a reaction to some of the open source developers who are total jerks
> when dealing with "mere users" :-).
>
> Over the last two years, the balance has been pretty good overall -- new
> and old users get help, people are treated (for the most part) nicely, and
> we get to have a little fun now and again.
>
> Over the last week, the balance has tipped -- when the volume of OT
> messages in the last two days is substantially higher than the number of
> on topic questions and answers, you know there is a problem.
>
> I'm not interested in squashing the fun.  I am interested in going back to
> the balance we had before -- mostly on topic, a few human interest topics
> (on Fridays mostly), and useful interaction on the topic of the frameork.
> It doesn't take a lot of abuse of ~1800 people's mailboxes to destroy the
> sense of community that we've worked hard to build.
>
> OK guys -- can we go back to Struts now?
>
> Craig McClanahan
>
>
>
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<ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
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