[IAEP] dealing with mailing lists

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> could play a very important role in Sugar Labs have expressed their
> inability to read and participate on any of our mailing lists.

Why -- Traffic? S/N? Directness/rudeness? A preference for web forums? ... ?

> I would also like to suggest to those colleagues who are subscribed to
> the mailing lists but are not being able to keep up with them
> regularly, to set up a rule in their mail client that highlights those
> emails that include their addresses in CC or that mention their names.

+1 -- that's what I do. I'm sub'd to many lists, follow some threads
(definitely not all! :) ). I sure keep track of threads where I am
CC'd or that I recognise as mentioning areas I work on.

cheers,



m
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