Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-12-02 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
Originally, I was only subscribed to the tech list -- because I was only looking for an SA technical discussion list. Until I think somebody responded to a question I had, that it had already been discussed on the discuss list. I didn't notice that this disucssion was on both lists, until it wa

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-12-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Matt Disney wrote: > On 11/30/11 11:25 PM, Adam Moskowitz wrote: >> Worse -- we have t...@lopsa.org *and* disc...@lopsa.org, and we're >> having this discussion ON BOTH LISTS! Why? At a minimum, because no >> one knows the difference between the two lists. > > I d

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-12-01 Thread Peter M. Jansson
Josh wrote: > AM> Worse -- we have t...@lopsa.org *and* disc...@lopsa.org, and we're > AM> having this discussion ON BOTH LISTS! Why? At a minimum, because no > AM> one knows the difference between the two lists. I elected to receive LOPSA tech and discuss as digests. Instead of delivering the

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-12-01 Thread John Stoffel
> "Adam" == Adam Moskowitz writes: Adam> Tom Limoncelli wrote: >> We have disc...@lopsa.org for talking about current events, conferences, >> and so on. Why subdivide it? Adam> Worse -- we have t...@lopsa.org *and* disc...@lopsa.org, and we're Adam> having this discussion ON BOTH LISTS! Why?

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-12-01 Thread Adam Moskowitz
John Stoffel wrote: > As for moving to Google Groups or anything like that, please no. Please allow me to clarify . . . I didn't say or even suggest that LOPSA should move to Google groups or even that LOPSA should change anything about how its members communicate. What I _did_ say was that peopl

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Matt Disney
On 11/30/11 11:25 PM, Adam Moskowitz wrote: > Worse -- we have t...@lopsa.org *and* disc...@lopsa.org, and we're > having this discussion ON BOTH LISTS! Why? At a minimum, because no > one knows the difference between the two lists. I do think we should reconsider our list structure going forward,

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Matt Disney
On 11/30/11 9:27 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > If there are 1000 important problems that LOPSA should be working to fix, > this isn't one of them. I guess I won't show you the 27 8x10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, showing our fancy plan to

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Adam Moskowitz
Tom Limoncelli wrote: > We have disc...@lopsa.org for talking about current events, conferences, > and so on. Why subdivide it? Worse -- we have t...@lopsa.org *and* disc...@lopsa.org, and we're having this discussion ON BOTH LISTS! Why? At a minimum, because no one knows the difference between th

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Matt Disney
On 11/30/11 8:35 PM, Matt Simmons wrote: > Would it make sense to have a general "Conferences" mailing list to discuss > all-things conference related, rather than create several lists? Picked lopsa-lisa just because of list naming consistency and supporting the brands of both LOPSA and the confer

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 21:27, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > What problem are you trying to solve? > (...) > If there are 1000 important problems that LOPSA should be working to fix, > this isn't one of them. > +1 -- brandon s allbery allber...@gmail.com wander

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Tom Limoncelli
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Matt Disney wrote: > The plan actually *is* to have e.g. a new list for PICC attendees to > communicate with each other. However, we'll see how the LISA list works > out. If it's a stinker, we'll forget about the separate email list idea for > future events and w

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Matt Simmons
Would it make sense to have a general "Conferences" mailing list to discuss all-things conference related, rather than create several lists? --Matt On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Matt Disney wrote: > A few comments: > > I'm glad to have feedback about this since people have questions or > c

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Robert Hajime Lanning
In that vein... Twitter noun: Someone who is a twit. :) -- END OF LINE    -MCP -Original message- From: Paul Graydon To: discuss@lists.lopsa.org Sent: Wed, Nov 30, 2011 21:52:13 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA They talk to each other

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Matt Disney
A few comments: I'm glad to have feedback about this since people have questions or comments about it. One thing I want to make very clear: there's nothing here that is intended to be a wedge with USENIX. I think we're actually in good shape on improving our (LOPSA) relationship with USENIX and I

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Paul Graydon
They talk to each other using bird sounds?! What kind of crazy crack is that? How do I learn the language? Oh wait, I already know perl, surely that's close enough to random noise as to be close. Paul On 11/30/2011 10:58 AM, Graham Dunn wrote: I hear the kids are using this thing called Twi

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Will Dennis
+1 -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Adam Moskowitz Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 3:26 PM To: t...@lists.lopsa.org; Discuss@lists.lopsa.org Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Graham Dunn
I hear the kids are using this thing called Twitter... On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > I agree that a lisa-specific mailing list is ill advised.   Would we > create a mailing list for PICC?  for the next big newsworthy event? > > If this is really flooding people's email

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 14:44, Matt Disney wrote: > For those of you that will be at LISA next week, I invite you to subscribe > to the email list we have set up for LISA topics: > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lopsa-lisa > Whaa? This makes me wonder if there's some new messi

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Tom Limoncelli
I agree that a lisa-specific mailing list is ill advised. Would we create a mailing list for PICC? for the next big newsworthy event? If this is really flooding people's email boxes, set up a filter on the word "lisa" in the subject. That will get 99% of the posts. Tom

Re: [lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Adam Moskowitz
Matt Disney wrote: > For those of you that will be at LISA next week, I invite you to subscribe > to the email list we have set up for LISA topics: > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lopsa-lisa I strongly urge people to ignore this suggestion. We already have more LOPSA lists than

[lopsa-discuss] Email list and IRC channel for LISA

2011-11-30 Thread Matt Disney
For those of you that will be at LISA next week, I invite you to subscribe to the email list we have set up for LISA topics: https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lopsa-lisa The general idea is for the list to serve as a forum for both announcements and discussions about things that are