<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">More lists may imply less posts/list and consequently more likelihood of reading (if not relevance)<div><br></div><div>Bigger aggregated lists will tend to be unwieldy and may include more stuff that individuals aren't interested in.</div><div><br></div><div>Mailing lists are a horrible way to communicate but we haven't found a better solution yet.</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On 16 Jul 2012, at 02:54, Richard Weait wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I suggest that we have too many English, general purpose lists. I<br>think that we could easily roll talk-ca@, talk-us@ and talk-au@ into<br>talk@ without harming any of those communities. None of the country<br>lists have enough traffic to cause a problem by overwhelming talk@<br><br>On the other hand, I think that the three country lists harm the<br>overall community by allowing Balkanization of community, tagging and<br>mapping. I think that there is too little to distinguish the<br>communities to require distinct lists, and allowing the groups to<br>splinter and diverge is harmful. As an example, it is better to have<br>cycle-mappers in US be aware of cycle mapping challenges in AU and CA,<br>rather than to believe that a unique US tagging scheme is required.<br><br>It might also be reasonable to roll the talk-gb and talk-ie etc, lists<br>back into talk@ as well, but I have no history with those lists.<br><br>In short, lists should be created based on demand, and then collapsed<br>when the demand abates. It's time to move en-talk back to talk.<br><br>Just my thoughts. How about you?<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Strategic mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Strategic@openstreetmap.org">Strategic@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/strategic">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/strategic</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>