On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 12:11, Dave Page wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com]
> > Also, I *am* expecting the windows port to expand out active
> > online community by at least 1000 subscribers, if not 5 times
> > that. My experience with other projects (like
> > OpenOffice.org) showed that when a mailing list gets too big
> > (somewhere between 60 and 100 posts a day) it becomes
> > prohibitive for the
> > entry-level user as a support mechanism. Some people have
> > yahoo accounts,
> > you know?
>
> That's a different issue altogether though (perfectly valid though). Is
> there a more appropriate way to split the existing groups perhaps? I'm
> opposed to shifting the windows users onto a platform specific group
> just because there's a lot of them. I'm not opposed to shifting them if
> we find there are lots of platform specific problems though.
>
Josh, so you see the windows list duplicating ground from some of the
other lists? Ie. the description of the windows list would be inclusive
of "admin"-ing on windows, "performance" on windows, and "general" usage
problems on windows?
Robert Treat
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