Anthony skrev:
This is especially true if the main person complaining about the discussion has only been here for a month.
Just for the record as I will not pursue this issue any more.
I have used e-mails daily since 1984 (actually then introducing the first mailsystem into a major Swedish company). I have been active in many hundreds maillists, and have no problem handing a flow of mails.
I am for the moment active in some 15 wikimedia mailgroups. I have compared the working on foundation-l with internal-l for instance and find that almost the same topics are up with very much the same people and arguments, but where on internal a complicated issue can take 20-30 mails whereafter often some type a consensus is reached , I find on foundation-l some 200-300 mail in the same subject with no firm conclusion. After following the list for six weeks I have come to the conclusion the inefficiency of this list is because it is too chatty, and that an improvement could easily be done by just abiding to the common-sense rule I have experienced on other list where there are many subscriber - limit the number of entries per user and day - it enables more people to participate and make it easier to follow a discussion.
Anders (last entry on this subject)