Please don't (was RE: [thelist] Advanced PHP mailing list?)

Simon Willison simon at incutio.com
Tue Jul 30 10:14:01 CDT 2002


At 07:58 30/07/2002 -0700, Joel Canfield wrote:
>Same here. I don't *want* another list, I wanna read your advanced
>discussions right here. I'm not advanced yet, and much of it will be over my
>head to begin with, but I'll still read it.

The only problem there is that thelist is pretty high volume. People like
you and me who are already subscribed are fine with this, but there are
many advanced PHP developers out there who would happily subscribe to a
list specifically for advanced PHP topics but would not be interested in a
more general list such as evolt. Having a seperate list also encourages
more in depth discussion - if a thread started on this list concerning the
best way to organise an object oriented PHP application it would likely
only last a few messages. On a specialist list it would be likely to go on
for much longer.

In addition, should such a thread grow to huge proportions it could upset
the many non-PHP users on this list who are not interested in the topic in
hand.

>Please consider staying right here with your advanced PHP discussions. The
>benefits to thelist and your fellow evolters will be immense.

I agree entirely that any discussions on an "advanced" topic list would be
of great value to the web development community as a whole. Should we set
such a list up we will certainly keep the archive public for anyone to
view. In addition, I am considering the idea of a weblog dedicated to
covering interesting threads on the list which will summarise threads and
link to the relevant posts in the archive.

I hope that addresses your (most definitely valid) concerns,

Simon Willison




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