Re: example of nice usability feature

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Ali Akcaagac wrote:
> > 
> > Telling people when a thread is off-topic, and which mailing list is
> > most on-topic, is useful because it keeps d-d-l just-about usable.
> 
> Yes of course this may be the case. But in the past we were discussing a
> lot of stuff here even OT and nobody bothered. He just wrote one email
> and not 20 not to mention that he didn't carbo compied it to other 5
> GNOME lists as other people tend to do. So we should take it easy.

This is being done because there is too much nose in the mailing list now.  
We're in danger of losing relevancy.  People are already starting to 
unsubscribe to this list because of flames, OT, and what not.  So we're 
trying to curb the noise.


> But maybe I could point out that we do have too many lists imo. We

I agree, completely.  I think someone is working on taking care of that.


sri