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Re: [ns] Why not split the list?



On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, John Heidemann wrote:

> We've considered splitting the list several times, but there are two
> problems:
> 
> 1. There's no easy way to split.
>     (novices vs. experts, 

that would be ns-users vs. ns-dev.

> 2. Even if we split, I'm concerned that people would not make use of
> the split (but would instead post to both lists, or post to the wrong
> one, ...).

Or worse, not read both lists, fragmenting the knowledge
base. (Hmmm. See 1.)

> We already have a lot of trouble with people posting FAQs
> to the list, even though we strongly encourage people to read the FAQ
> (on the web page, and in e-mail, and...).

better web pages may help.

L.

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