[MacPerl] Mailing lists, back to our usual discussions

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 23:28 -0400 07/13/1999, Richard Gordon wrote:
>At 15:05 -0500 7/13/1999, Matthew Langford wrote:
>>Shouldn't this thread be on the Forum list?  :)

Yes.
>
>I rest my case.

What, that we do it wrong? Just because us oldies are too lazy to move to
the new lists doesn't mean they aren't worthwhile ;-). It's a momentum
thing... I don't think there is anything wrong with the breakdown (list
members suggested the topics), it's just that people aren't used to it yet.
I belong to several dozen mailing lists and actually read several of them
regularly. :-) Shortterm Offtopic posts are standard fare when the people
like to talk :-). Sadly, the theory says that when those threads go on for
"too long" the result is lost subscribers.

Actually this thread is still MacPerl related so it still belongs here.
It's the discussions of MacOS X that should be on forum. But we can
probably should move this discussion to macperl-forum or end it 'cause I
think it's getting exhausted.

CGI questions to macperl-webcgi.

At 15:05 -0500 07/13/1999, Matthew Langford wrote:
>I would hate to see Kevin Reid's splendid little Toolbox toys relegated to
>toolbox; they should inspire the main body of MacPerlites.

No, the Toolbox list is for in-depth discussions of the toolbox and how to
use it. The resulting toys belong here... where no one who uses them is
required to understand how they work, only to marvel that Kevin has that
much time!  And is so willing to share :-)

At 15:05 -0500 07/13/1999, Matthew Langford wrote:
>But modules, toolbox, and porters  seem intimately related to MacPerl.

Should these be merged?  (I'll ask on those lists :-)

At 11:12 -0400 07/13/1999, Richard Gordon wrote:
>This is the only
>mailing list I've ever subscribed to that is so finely subdivided.

There are eight MkLinux mailing lists. There are how many Perl mailing
lists? (advocacy, scripts archive, p5p, clp-mod, fun with perl, visioneers,
sdk, trainers...) Bare Bones split the BBEdit Web discussions out of BBEdit
Talk. There's plenty of precedent. This isn't a subdivided mailing list,
it's a set of topic-specific lists for the MacPerl community. A community
which cares about its subject deeply enough to argue about the mailing
lists :-)

At 14:37 -0400 07/13/1999, Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>The only thing that bothers me about multiple lists is that I am subscribed
>to several of them, and I get multiple copies of messages that are sent to
>more than one list.

Use Eudora :-) Available for Macs and ... those other boxes... but sadly
not for Unix.  Set the setting to delete duplicate messages, et voila.

I think the consensus is the multiple lists stay. If you want to think of
them as one big list, subscribe to all of them and filter them into a
single mailbox :-)

Shall we get back to MacPerl?  The comparisons to the AppleScript lists are
getting perilously offtopic :-)

- Vicki
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