Re: [orca-list] scope of this list

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

First, let me say that I'll go along with whatever the list or the
moderators decide. In general, I prefer well moderated lists myself, but
I suspect I'm guilty of straying off topic on this list. I agree with
this in theory, but it would be good to know some examples of some off
topic posts. I don't find this to be a very high traffic list. Also, the
screen reader is such an important part of the system for a blind
person, it could be hard to draw that line on when an issue is off
topic. For these reasons, I think we should try to keep things on topic,
but we should also be pretty liberal in what we consider on topic for
this list.

On a related point, good subject lines would help me manage the traffic
on this and all lists. I'm not sure if it's just me, but coming up with
good subject lines and changing them when the discussion changes seems
to be a dying art.

On 15/08/11 14:56, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> On 08/15/2011 02:49 PM, Jon wrote:
> > Do people feel the same/any other views?
>
> Absolutely. I've brought this up many times previously, and generally
> people agree, but nothing gets done. I was thinking that I might just
> leave the list this time.
>
> I get that it seems nice to help people, and to answer off-topic
> questions. However, think of what would happen if *everyone* on *every
> list* did that. If my Scala list is spammed with Ruby questions, my ATX
> Hackerspace group gets postings on San Francisco events, and my Android
> list gets overwhelmed by questions from iPhone users, then what's the
> point of mailing lists? For every one person who says "I can't get my
> wireless to work. I use Orca. I'll send that to the Orca list!" hundreds
> of us spend time deleting. And just where do we draw the line in that
> case? At the moment I'm learning about internet marketing. I use Orca.
> Should I start posting questions about advertising and affiliate
> marketing here because I happen to use Orca while doing these things?
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Christopher (CJ)
chaltain gmail com