pains of a list user: a political essay

[Brian Michalk]

I don't know how many members are on this list, and I am on a few, and even
host a couple of my own majordomo lists.

It is my experience that a small list (less than 100) of very technical
members gives the appearance of being unresponsive and curt.

It takes a special type of technical person that likes to answer questions
on minor details.  Most engineer type people know the answer but don't feel
like answering the question.  Once the list grows beyond 200 (my
observation) the conversations become more fluent and productive; they
become self-sustaining with people from all sorts of skills contributing to
the conversation.

As far as the majordomo/Yahoo solution.  It doesn't surprise me about the
majordomo decision.  It is the typical engineers choice.  Small,
lightweight, sharp and fast.  Like a shifter kart.  No frills, but it
screams.  With Yahoo you've got to put up with those @$#%(@$# advertisements
and those of us who use text only email readers hate that stuff.

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