Looking for good souls

Bert Freudenberg bert at impara.de
Sun Apr 23 11:09:37 UTC 2006


Am 23.04.2006 um 10:43 schrieb Yoshiki Ohshima:

>   Hello,
>
>   I guess trying a new list for a bit different audience is ok.  I'll
> subscribe and try to help there.  I would imagine that the mailing
> list may not get too much traffic, as Squeak-announce was somewhat
> similar in a sense.  (But we'll see.)
>
>   I, too, think one list for all is ideal (I might agree though that
> some people can be intimidating on this list^^;).
>
>   Don't forget about the Pygmalion Effect.  People tend to act how
> they are supposed to act.  If we have two lists, and one is labelled
> as the "friendlier" list, that could be interpreted as a message
> saying that another list is "unfriendly", and it is ok to act
> unfriendlier there.  This is not what we want.

Indeed - that's partly why I suggested "newbies" as list name.

>   I don't see it a problem that the same questions coming up to the
> list over and over again.  Any question is the same, and human being
> is the best filter and the best mentor.  If someone wants to ask a
> question, he should ask it, instead of looking for the right keyword
> to search the wiki database.
>
>   Apart from the intimidation, the barrier to any mailing list is the
> burden to go through the registration process...  Is it reasonable to
> set up the mailing list which is moderated by bunch of people over
> different timezone, and accept posts from non-members?

Good idea. But how do the non-subscribers get their answers? We could  
try to CC the non-subscribed thread participants. Or auto-subscribe  
any poster?

Also very nice for newbies would be a mailing list <-> web forum  
gateway. I like the one at Nabble (http://www.nabble.com/Squeak- 
f14152.html), but it also requires creating an account ...

- Bert -




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