<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:goran@krampe.se">goran@krampe.se</a></b> <<a href="mailto:goran@krampe.se">goran@krampe.se</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Ehm... that would sortof defeat the purpose of having a list that<br>newbies *dare* posting to because of the intimidation factor in posting<br>to the large and rather knowledgeable squeak-dev list, right?</blockquote>
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Not really. People usually decide to join a list after looking at
the archive. THey would look at the "help" archives and see lots
of questions, followed by good answers. They would say "this
looks like a good place for me to ask my questions", and they would
have no idea how many people are actually reading the list.<br>
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People can't tell how many other people are on a list, they can only
judge the traffic. squeak-dev has enough traffic to intimidate
most people. It also has a lot of topics that seem esoteric to a
newcomer. Splicing "help" traffic into squeak-dev would not make
either of these things happen to the "help" list. <br>
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My only concern is that splicing the lists together would require
someone to do some work, and I don't want to wait around until it
happens, because things like that can be low priority and take a long
time to get done. I'd like to see the newbie list created ASAP
and then for someone to splice them together "soon".<br>
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-Ralph Johnson<br>
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