Would people please stop "+1" -ing? It generates wasted list traffic, and in the absence of speech against the idea, it's pretty pointless, other than to accellerate the annoyance factor for everyone else, which is clearly too high already. James Diebel <james@streamlex.com> wrote on Sat, 12 May 2012 at 13:14:55 -0700 in <6D9CCE5C-52A8-48F0-A9EF-616A9D80531A@streamlex.com>:
I don't mean to harp on this issue but my previous email on the topic has seemed not to have gotten the attention of the person responsible for maintaining the mailing list.
I'm afraid it certainly seems like harping to me, both in isolation and especially in concert with all the +1 emails. Please stop. There's a good reason it hasn't "gotten the attention" -- the list maintainership responsibilities are in transition, because (allegedly) they follow the TZ coordinator responsibilities and those are in transition. Paul has been nominated and approved by the IESG but we have no indication that formal transfer has taken place, and even if it has, Paul should be given some time to settle in. In the meantime, it seems easy enough. Either follow the recommendation of David Zuelke and use his Yahoo pipe http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=48419402cafd8f112ff12c58d27a986f which will doubtless by sufficient for quite some time, switch the digest mode (standard mailman options), or produce your own local customized filter or system. postcript: I woudl offer that it seems to me inadvisible to push for list structural changes on the list -- I don't think it is apparent that metadiscussion is in scope. Email the list maintainer privately, please, and offer your suggestion and only bring it up on-list if there is not a satisfactory response in a reasonable time period. That way the rest of us can focus on what we're really here for. --jhawk@mit.edu John Hawkinson