Hi, Jim.
Is it easy to summarize the traffic on the main alias by week? Month?
I have a gut feel for what the traffic has been, but seeing the numbers
might shed some more light on this.
Apart from that, it seems like a philosophical choice whether to funnel
what traffic there is through a single alias or to start creating more
focused.ones lists.
I have not participated heavily in open source discussions on mail
aliases, but on other lists there is for me a bell curve with traffic
volume (on the X axis) plotted against my interest in the list (on the Y
axis). If traffic is too low, I find myself not very intrigued. If it
is too high, there may be good information in the discussion but it's
hard to sift through the high volume to find the good stuff. There is a
"just right" level of traffic that - again, for me personally -
indicates enough activity that good ideas are probably in there but not
so much activity that I can't find those good ideas.
And, no, I do not know precisely what that magic volume of traffic is!
But discounting cvs traffic I feel like I'm close to the left-hand end
of the bell curve (low traffic, low interest) with the current glassfish
list.
- Tim
Jim Driscoll wrote:
> I'm still uneasy about creating a lot of mail aliases when the one we
> have doesn't get much traffic.
>
> But I seem to be outnumbered on this, so I'm backing away from the idea.
>
> I'd love to hear what others think.
>
> Jim
>
> Carla Mott wrote:
>
>> Last week I created a new email alias persistence_at_glasfish.dev.java.net
>> for the persistence team. They will have technical discussions about
>> CMP and entity-persistence on that alias. More to come later.
>>
>> Note that for at least the time being I have added this alias to get the
>> digest format of the persistence mails so people can see what is
>> going on.
>> I expect that the emails will be forwarded for a couple of weeks.
>>
>> I plan on continuing this practice when additional aliases are created.
>>
>> Comments?
>>
>> Carla
>>
>
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