Re: RANT: write-only mailing-lists ?

[William Yodlowsky <wyodlows@andromeda.rutgers.edu>]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:22:43AM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
> And just to be explain: the main reason this is a problem is that
> this might distract the most knowledgeable members of the team from
> reading the mailing-lists, because of sheer volume.

[snip]

> I expect other project members to do the same, or even worse to not read
> the mailing-lists at all...

Indeed--and besides, wouldn't folks rather let the developers *develop*
instead of answering the same question 50 times, whose answer can be found
by reading the website or doing simple searches?  That's what the
archive is there for, after all...

Thanks Marc for the great work you do, and for taking the time to
justify something that IMHO didn't need justification  :-)