2007/7/27, Joe Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 04:22:31PM +0200, J.C. Pizarro wrote: > > The users don't want to join and detach to many mailing lists to post > > only a message once by week or month. He wants to post quickly, > > not to post slowly more than 10 minutes. > > You're trying to optimize the wrong cost measure.
Could be a wrong cost measure, but it depends from the user wasting time to post a message. > It's not in our interest to have people "post quickly". The > time cost to compose and post a message is less than the time cost > of the thousands of people who will read that message, even if most > kill it based on the subject line or sender's identity. Separate lists > saves the time of those who aren't interested in certain types of > messages, or those who must make sure that every message of a certain type > (a patch, for example) gets processed. I didn't know that posting a message can kill time to the people that was reading it. > Also, you need not subscribe to a gcc list to post to it. It's non-announced phrase was unknown for me until now.
