[Coin-discuss] Could there be one COIN mailing list?

[Hart, William E]

I'm not sure I have the bandwidth to implement a forum by myself, but I'm comfortable volunteering to help evaluate alternatives.

--Bill


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Ralphs [mailto:ted at Lehigh.EDU]
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 8:32 PM
> To: Hart, William E
> Cc: Geoff Leyland; coin-discuss at list.coin-or.org
> Subject: Re: [Coin-discuss] Could there be one COIN mailing list?
> 
> We discussed this quite a bit before implementing the current system.
> We used to have just one list, but the volume got high enough that it
> was above the threshold of many people who still wanted to get the
> occasional e-mail aimed at a more general audience. With 40+ projects,
> some of which *do* have pretty active lists, I don't think going back
> to one list is really an option. We could possibly think about
> unifying certain groups of lists that are likely to have similar
> audiences, but a more straightforward solution might be simply to
> provide an easier way to subscribe to many lists simultaneously, such
> as a form with check boxes where you just check off projects you want
> to follow ala Twitter. That is something that has been discussed and
> is just waiting for a volunteer to implement it. Is that the only
> issue? Instead of wasting your time subscribing to all these lists,
> want to spend it implementing the form instead :)?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ted
> 
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Hart, William E <wehart at sandia.gov>
> wrote:
> > And many of them don't get any email!  (In fact, I hope that some of
> them that I manage won't get any email, since the developer groups
> don't read them...)
> >
> > --Bill
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: coin-discuss-bounces at list.coin-or.org [mailto:coin-discuss-
> >> bounces at list.coin-or.org] On Behalf Of Geoff Leyland
> >> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 8:05 PM
> >> To: coin-discuss at list.coin-or.org
> >> Subject: [Coin-discuss] Could there be one COIN mailing list?
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> There's an awful lot of COIN mailing lists I'd like to subscribe to
> >> since INFORMS, but it's going to take a while to get them one by
> one.
> >> Most of the lists seem to be low volume, so is there a reason (apart
> >> from that it would be hard to change, which is a very good reason)
> why
> >> there is one (or two) list(s) per project instead of just one list
> (or
> >> a discuss, announce and tickets)
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Geoff
> >>
> >>
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