Re: [PHP-LANG] In the meanwhile....

At 02:48 18/11/2000, Sascha Schumann wrote:
>On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Zeev Suraski wrote:
>
> > Guys,
> >
> > This mailing list was announced a few hours ago, on a weekend.  Most of
> > what you're writing today is going nowhere, because people haven't yet got
> > around to even know that this mailing list exists.
>
>     Zeev,
>
>     don't worry.
>
>     Mailing lists aren't black holes (and Friday is a working day
>     in most parts of the world). People can catchup by using NNTP
>     or retrieving emails from the archive.
>
>     Naturally, discussions slow down on Saturday/Sunday, so I
>     don't expect to get any replies before Monday anyway.

The problem is that most people won't respond because they won't see what 
to respond to.  If it waited for 5 years, it can wait a couple of more days.

Friday afternoon is a pretty bad time to start a new active mailing 
list.  Most PHP developers don't do this full time, which means that even 
if they're at work, it doesn't mean at all that they're reading php-dev@.

Working on the spec is fine, but the discussions themselves should wait...

Zeev

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Zeev Suraski   <[email protected]>
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