From: Michael Shigorin Date: 2007-01-04T01:12:36+09:00 Subject: Re: Proposal to create a new mailing list On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 11:05:43AM +0900, Eric Hodel wrote: > Please go search the archives for why this list hasn't been split in > the past despite a split being proposed nearly every six months. "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy" by Clay Shirky[1] is surely already grokked by everyone involved but I personally stopped following ruby-talk@, although didn't unsubscribe, since there are several high volume mailing lists of more importance to me at the same time as I'm quite rarely developing anything at all. (so if anyone cares to reply, please Cc: me personally; thanks) Mind you, I've used mutt for a year or so when subscribing ruby-talk@, so there wasn't much space left for optimization already. This is a very usual story, and to grow, wise listmasters and "list elders" must know when to split discussion and keep its volume practically consumable. One might remember one of the very first major USENET votings on comp.os.linux split[2] not to reinvent the historic solution to already known problem of successful and growing projects. PS: very nice FAQizer which could help those involved in list maintainership to cherrypick useful discussions and easily put them into categorized FAQ articles with original thread reference once was at typo3.org but that was gone[3] since the latest major site revamp (guess it's just too much trouble to touch the job so nobody does). PPS: happy New Year and merry Christmas! [1] http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html [2] http://www.tdl.com/~netex/linux-doc-project/install-guide/node47.html [3] http://typo3.org/documentation/mailing-lists/english-main-list-archive/ -- ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/