If the lists were diverged because volume was high and effective communication was difficult, then it may make sense to recombine previously diverged lists now that volume is decreasing. There is a communication trade off in both high volume lists and a complex list hierarchy - we went to a complex hierarchy seemingly to mitigate high volume, but with lower volume we've retained the complex system. Simplifying it may bring people back together. Something to consider, anyway.
Nathan
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
A danger with these sorts of shifts is fragmentation of the discourse -- it used to be that everybody who was anybody had their Serious Discussions on wikipedia-l (later split into wikipedia-l, wikitech-l, wikien-l, intlwiki-l, foundation-l, .....) Bloggy-chatty things at least tend to link around among themselves, so perhaps splitting isn't too dangerous there, but I don't have a good feel for how much *actual productive planning* gets done on these channels.