Re: Cocoa-Pro List
Re: Cocoa-Pro List
- Subject: Re: Cocoa-Pro List
- From: Michael Gersten <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 15:16:46 -0700
As someone who isn't a cocoa God, here's my two cents:
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> whats more, that makes three lists now, Omni's list, Apple's official
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> list, and now this third alternative.
Lets not forget the EOF (very low traffic) and WOF (not so low traffic) lists as well
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> in many cases, it makes it necessary to monitor all three, and
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> cross-posts/repeated posts will happen.
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Perhaps they will. But I hardly think there's much effort involved in
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subscribing and then reading email.
Are you actually able to read even both Cocoa-dev and Mac-dev? That's more traffic than I can handle while at work. Even out of work, looking for a job, those two, plus EOF and WOF-dev, plus my job search are more than I can handle.
Will there be much more traffic with another list? I don't know. It probably won't be that much more.
Will it be easier to find good answers? Maybe.
If the idea is really to stop the newbie "How do I do this" repeat questions, then maybe we just need a FAQ document for newbies to read.
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If mailman supports the ability to block
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cross-posts and it becomes a problem, I'll block cross-posted messages.
Like this one was cross posted?
What if a question starts as a non-cocoa mac question, and then through its answers becomes cocoa related? Can it never be cross posted at that point?
What if a topic was started on the Apple Cocoa-dev list, and, after frustration with the Apple archive system, the main person responsible for that thead both
A: switches to the Omni list because the archives are easier to work with, and deserve support,
B: switches to the Omni list because of problems with the Apple moderation system (messages over the size limit never being posted nor bounced back to the sender),
C: Comes up with a significant improvement on what they had previously come up with?
Such a person might want to switch the topic to the better list, and also make sure that anyone that can only read one list, and has choosen Apple's, and that saw the first round still see's the second round.
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Furthermore, most cross-posts are from newbies, I think, and I don't suspect
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it should be much of a problem.
Hmm... I'll start tracking that. Since I get cross-posts twice into the same mailbox (filter rules), and I see a lot of cross postings, I'll see if I get any sense of beginner/pro from the cross posts.
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Home is where you hang your @
Newbie, home is where you hang your ! and %. (:-)
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