<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra">Hi James,</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 April 2016 at 23:41, James Cameron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:22:21PM -0400, Dave Crossland wrote:<br>
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> On 11 April 2016 at 20:28, Chris Leonard <[1]<a href="mailto:cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com">cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> most of us are pretty used to the way things are, not that is a<br>
> super good reason<br>
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> Respectfully I think it is a bad reason; the community has shrunk over the last<br>
> few years, and I think making it better for potential newcomers is essential. <br>
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> Here's my next mailman configuration suggestion: setting dormant lists into a<br>
> read-only mode, to focus the remaining community.<br>
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</span>Let them fail. Start a new one, make invitations on the others, see<br>
who turns up.<br>
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How To Reset an Online Community by “Hot Tubbing” It<br>
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<a href="http://www.calebclark.org/?p=871" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.calebclark.org/?p=871</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think that is a solution to the opposite problem, where there are too many people on a single list. </div><div><br></div><div>However, if there was to be a new list to replace an existing one, I'd be happy to see a new 'sugar-discuss' list to replace iaep, continue sugar-devel, and put the rest listed in <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org">http://lists.sugarlabs.org</a> into read-only mode. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">It isn't really an administration of systems issue.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Who else can set the dormant lists into a read-only mode?</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Cheers<br>Dave</div>
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