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a : advanced-dotnet@discuss.develop.com 9 September 2008 • 9:14PM -0400

Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Retiring the ListServ
by Ben Joyce

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I'll happily help out if there are no other, more frequent posters who want
to do it.

Ben

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Sébastien Lorion <sebastien.lorion@gmai...
> wrote:

> For now I made the list public to make it easier for me and everyone, but I
> could make it so that a new user needs to send a request before becoming a
> member and existing members can invite friends. I think that should at
> least
> stop the spammers.
>
> As for signal to noise, I could make it invite only (how effective it would
> be, I am not sure). It would also have the side effect that newbies would
> be
> virtually excluded, which I see as a rather good thing. There are already
> many places for them elsewhere...
>
> Let me know what you think. Also, it would be good to have at least 2
> people
> managing the list, so if something happens to me, you are not all out of
> luck :p Any volunteer(s) ?
>
> Sébastien
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Pardee, Roy <pardee.r@ghc....> wrote:
>
> > Hah--thanks for the laugh.
> >
> > Not for nothing, but I suspect/fear that one big reason we've had such a
> > high signal/noise ratio on here is the relative obscurity of the list.  I
> > love google groups (and will join the new one, as well as Efran's) but
> won't
> > be surprised if our bright stars are diluted in fairly short order.
> >
> > But maybe I'm just an elitist bastard... ;-)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:
> > ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISC...] On Behalf Of Zaccariah Bowling
> > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 12:13 PM
> > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISC...
> > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Retiring the ListServ
> >
> > Errr woops. That was supposed to be a directly reply. Used to mailman
> type
> > list servers allowing me to reply directly.
> >
> > Now everyone knows our evil plans. That sucks.
> >
> > Zac
> >
> > On Sep 8, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Zaccariah Bowling wrote:
> >
> > > Just have us mono contributors take over the list. We could use it as
> > > part of our plans of world domination where we can control the content
> > > and lightly sway and shape the base over to getting everyone over to
> > > running their CLI code on Linux over time. Muhaha.. (I'm just upset
> > > because my interview at Microsoft didn't go as well as I hoped on
> > > Friday)
> > >
> > > Anyways, I didn't know you followed the list too Sebastion? That's
> > > awesome I know Miguel and Kangaroo follow too.
> > >
> > > Zac
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sep 8, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Sébastien Lorion wrote:
> > >
> > >> Well, if everyone agree with that, then I created
> > >> http://groups.google.com/group/advanced-dotnet and you can simply
> > >> join the group.
> > >>
> > >> Sébastien
> > >> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Greg Young <gregoryyoung1@gmai...>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Well we can always just create a google group and move on over ...
> > >>>
> > >>> Cheers,
> > >>>
> > >>> Greg
> > >>>
> > >>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Sébastien Lorion
> > >>> <sebastien.lorion@gmai...> wrote:
> > >>>> I agree with Per here, moving to Google Groups would be great as
> > >>>> this
> > >>> list
> > >>>> has many knowledgeable people contributing and as far as I can
> > >>>> remember,
> > >>> no
> > >>>> flame wars or such childish things.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Sébastien
> > >>>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Per Bolmstedt
> > >>>> <discuss.develop.com@ul7....>wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:31:37 +0100, Richard Blewett <
> > >>> richardb@DEVE...>
> > >>>>> wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> the world has moved on from mail reflectors to blogs, web forums
> > >>>>>> and other discussion mediums.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Yeah, like Google Groups. Why not just migrate the list there
> > >>>>> instead of this overly dramatic adieu? Or to Yahoo! Groups, or
> > >>>>> whatever?
> > >>> DevelopMentor
> > >>>>> could still be moderators, to keep the stamp of approval.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Lack of exit strategy... painful every time.
> > >>>>>
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