list splitting

["pat eyler" <p_eyler hotmail com>]

> From: "J. J. Horner" <jhorner 2jnetworks com>
[yes! Joakim is the leader]
> If possible, I would like to hold off on the site-specific dicussions until
> we get more organized.  I have about 600 email messages I wade through each 
> day
> and I'm having trouble keeping up with the prelim dicussions, and the
> site specific information at the same time.  Until we get organized
> it may be tough for a new person to get up to speed.

This can be a difficult phase for a mailing list (as noted earlier by 
Joakim).  If the high level of traffic (and the wide disparity in topics) 
continues it might be worthwhile to invesitgate forming sublists.  The Perl6 
organization might be a good model to look at if we go in that direction.  A 
short term (i.e., the list will close in 30 days or so) list dedicated to 
open discussion. then some more small lists (on a 60 day life cycle) to go 
through architecture, theming, content harvesting (from gnome/gtk sites and 
extrenal sites), and tool selection (php/zope/mason etc).  Finally working 
lists to actually do the work, the number and scope of these would be 
generated during the life cycle of the second generation of lists.

I don't know that the timeframes above are even close to right, but it does 
give us a place to start talking.

-pate

> Thanks
> JJ

_________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at 
http://profiles.msn.com.