Mailing list merger (Was: Re: Cursor zone)
Mailing list merger (Was: Re: Cursor zone)
- Subject: Mailing list merger (Was: Re: Cursor zone)
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 14:05:11 +0100
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> [A side note: if people asking questions are going to cross-post between
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> cocoa-dev and macosx-dev, I think they should do it with an explicit
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> cross-post by addressing a single message to both lists. Separate posts
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> to each list means that the person answering the question has to then
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> post a reply separately to each list, which is annoying, and means that
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> followup discussion is split on the two lists. That said, I personally
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> think it would be nice if question posters just chose one list or the
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> other; I suspect the reader list for the two is close to identical, so
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> cross-posting just wastes everybody's time. I wonder whether we, the
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> cocoa developer community, should be making noise about combining these
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> lists, in fact; do they serve any distinct function apart? Anyhow, on
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> to the thread at hand...]
Well, the simple thing to do, would probably be just to request that
OmniGroup closes down macosx-dev (macosx-talk, on the other hand would still
fill a purpose). Since it is only costing them money, I don't see why they
wouldn't, now that Apple provides a good (well, reasonably...) list.
The only thing where the mailinglists don't overlap, is for non-cocoa
stuff...At least in theory, macosx-dev allows non-cocoa topics as long as it
is osx related. BSD, carbon etc can also be discussed there...That makes it
a good entry point for ppl who want to ask a question but don't know where
to start. There was an instance of that on the project builder list the
other day, where someone asked how to create contextual menu modules for the
Finder. That really wasn't a question for that list, but he didn't know
where else to start as he didn't know wether it was carbon or cocoa.
Macosx-dev would have been OK.
/ My 2c.
// David
(PS. Maybe I should cross-post this? ;-)
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