On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Alan Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote: > The amount of email on this list has grown beyond ridiculousness.
> Thoughts? We'd be fine if it weren't for a small number of participants "bulldozing" -- dominating a discussion by sheer volume of email. IMO, it's time to enshrine this advice from Doug on the "email tips" page at <http://www.apache.org/dev/contrib-email-tips.html>: http://markmail.org/message/viluvkt6x2dhj4iv Please do not feel obliged to answer every response to your messages here. That does not scale well. There are a lot of people who read this list. Each message sent is equivalent to taking the floor in a meeting with all of these people in the room. Please pause to consider that before responding or folks will start to leave this room. A best practice on a list with this many members is to respond thoughtfully on each thread just once per day. Try to keep your responses short, sticking to the points which are most important to you. Then wait, giving folks who might only read the list once a day a chance to respond to each of your messages. Use this time to gauge the general response of the community. Then try to respond to the list as a whole rather than individually to each member of the list. It would be an interesting experiment to run general@ on a listserv which throttled authors to one email per thread per day. :) Or to create a "bulldozer detector" tool which parses an mbox and prints summary data for each thread: * authors ranked by message count * authors ranked by word count Marvin Humphrey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
