On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 05:46:12PM +0100, Martin Guy via cfarm-users wrote: > On 21/01/2019, Aymeric via cfarm-users > <cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net> wrote: > > here is the list of top 10 user, if you're in > > you should consider making some space ;-) > > I don't think that publicly flogging the top ten is the best strategy > for two reasons: > 1) It's embarassing and unloving
I didn't interpret it as a flogging or even as impolite. This shared system faces a shared challenge, and the request named the people best able to help with that challenge. > 2) The biggest users may be using more because they are doing more > work for free than anyone else. Right. High disk usage is not a transgression, but it does create a duty to do yet more work as the disk runs out of space. > 3) It tends to make the other hundreds of users to think "Oh, look at > those big hogs. I don't need to do anything" - yet the many can make > more of a difference than the few In this case, the top ten represent 51% of the usage. Hence, I think it was reasonable to not seek help from hundreds of users representing the other 49%. > It would be more polite and pointful, if you feel that the going after > biggest users is a useful strategy, for an official cfarm admin to > write to those people in private, explaining the problem and politely > asking whether they need to use quite so much space Some people read their private email before email they receive by virtue of a mailing list subscription. For that reason alone, +1 for using private email when notifying ten specific people. _______________________________________________ cfarm-users mailing list cfarm-users@lists.tetaneutral.net https://lists.tetaneutral.net/listinfo/cfarm-users
