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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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