[Mapserver-users] Other MapServer mailing lists

[Manfred Meier]

Hi all,

i want to add something to my reply:

At esri there is the site forums.esri.com. There you have a lot of 
mailing lists with questions and answers online. The advantage of this 
system is:

- you do not have all the mails in your mail account. You read them online.

- not every mail contains the text of all the mails of that thread like 
in mapserver list. All mails of one thread are listed one after another.

I like this solution. But I see that this is a problem for people that 
are not always online.

Manfred


Tyler Mitchell schrieb:

> Some of us have been discussing/debating about how to improve the
> MapServer community, specifically via the mailing lists.  The idea is that
> there might be some benefit gained from creating a new list or two.
> 
> I am not sure how well all the questions get answered, especially
> considering the volume of mail coming through these days.
> 
> - I've heard from more than a few people that they unsubscribe after their
> question is answered because the traffic is so high.  Do you think new
> users would benefit from a less threatening (lower volume!) newbie list?
> - Would some specific technical areas benefit from having a list (i.e.
> Mapscript)?
> - Would an "announcement only" list be useful?
> 
> What do you others on the list think?
> 
> Tyler
> 
> p.s. for those of you who were overcome with guilt for never replying to 
> my surveys, now's your chance to participate ;) ha!
> 
> 
> 
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