Re: Proposal to close down WDF-DOM

levon ghazaryan <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:19:39 +0100
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Hi Peter,

with Google and a lot of documentation around it is rather
strange to me to write/read messages starting with
"how do I...?" or "where can I find ...?".
Other topics like compatibility/abstraction/etc frameworks
like for example prototype and other could be an interesting
topic to discuss, but for some reason this topic didn't  arise.
maybe again enough information there?
canvas, webapp/html5 could also become nice topics to discuss,
maybe we developers became different or at least behave different
for the last few years and don't discuss much?

most topics did arise in the past in the following way:
one would post an email with "how can I do some stuff with ..." (or "did
someone already something like that ...?") and this would
result in some information shared on some interesting topic
not only for the questioner.

maybe there are a lot of blogs out, and google that searches through
them all, so instead of typing an email one would type it into his
search box?

I'm not sure if there is nothing more to discuss, maybe this would
be a nice topic. Topics like "i gonna close this group" will most
likely end with group closure:)

don't give up this group, or maybe do it, but purpose a better one!

happy new year (soon) to everyone here,

~levon

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Peter-Paul Koch <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> This group WDF-DOM has a venerable history, but it seems that
> nowadays it's mostly dead. This year, 2009, there were exactly 6
> mails, and last year, 2008, =A016.
>
> I think it's best to close down this group, but before I do so I'd
> like to give the members an opportunity to speak up.
>
> So this is the deal: in about four weeks I will close down this group
> permanently unless before that time I receive at least twenty
> requests to keep it up and running.
>
> So if you want this list to remain active, speak up now or be slient
> forever <g>.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
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> agent, and trainer
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      <p>Hi Peter,<br>
<br>
with Google and a lot of documentation around it is rather<br>
strange to me to write/read messages starting with<br>
&quot;how do I...?&quot; or &quot;where can I find ...?&quot;.<br>
Other topics like compatibility/<wbr>abstraction/<wbr>etc frameworks<br>
like for example prototype and other could be an interesting<br>
topic to discuss, but for some reason this topic didn't  arise.<br>
maybe again enough information there?<br>
canvas, webapp/html5 could also become nice topics to discuss,<br>
maybe we developers became different or at least behave different<br>
for the last few years and don't discuss much?<br>
<br>
most topics did arise in the past in the following way:<br>
one would post an email with &quot;how can I do some stuff with ...&quot; (=
or &quot;did<br>
someone already something like that ...?&quot;) and this would<br>
result in some information shared on some interesting topic<br>
not only for the questioner.<br>
<br>
maybe there are a lot of blogs out, and google that searches through<br>
them all, so instead of typing an email one would type it into his<br>
search box?<br>
<br>
I'm not sure if there is nothing more to discuss, maybe this would<br>
be a nice topic. Topics like &quot;i gonna close this group&quot; will most=
<br>
likely end with group closure:)<br>
<br>
don't give up this group, or maybe do it, but purpose a better one!<br>
<br>
happy new year (soon) to everyone here,<br>
<br>
~levon<br>
<br>
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&gt; Hello,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; This group WDF-DOM has a venerable history, but it seems that<br>
&gt; nowadays it's mostly dead. This year, 2009, there were exactly 6<br>
&gt; mails, and last year, 2008, =A016.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I think it's best to close down this group, but before I do so I'd<br>
&gt; like to give the members an opportunity to speak up.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; So this is the deal: in about four weeks I will close down this group<=
br>
&gt; permanently unless before that time I receive at least twenty<br>
&gt; requests to keep it up and running.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; So if you want this list to remain active, speak up now or be slient<b=
r>
&gt; forever &lt;g&gt;.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Thanks,<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; ------------<wbr>---------<wbr>---------<wbr>---------<wbr>---------<w=
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