[mythtv-users] Spilt Myth mailing list?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 16:09, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
> Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> >On Wednesday 11 February 2004 10:36, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
> >>Jeff Monks wrote:
> >>>If I can interject a small observation:
> >>>Gossamer Threads archive.  I think a lot of newbies aren't aware
> >>>that it exists, and its link on mythtv.org isn't very prominent.
> >>>Perhaps making that link a bit more obvious to new users (or
> >>>scattering it through the documentation a bit) would help cut down
> >>>on repeat posts about the same topics.
> >>
> >>Oh PLEASE the link to the searchable archives is five measly words
> >>from the link to sign up for the mailing lists.  If you miss it
> >>you're not RTFM to begin with.
> >
> >Yes, but you have to admit that it's very easy to miss.
>
> My point was that if you're on this mailing list you should have at
> least SEEN the fact that there's a searchable archive unless you
> completely did not read and just blindly clicked on the link to take
> you to the mailing list signup page.

I imagine that's what most people do...

Again, the link to the list signup page is more prominent than the link 
to the gossamer archives.  If anything, it should be the other way 
around.  I bet there are more than a few folks who would never have 
bothered signing up for the list if they knew about the Gossamer 
archive beforehand.  I'd guess a lot of people are more than happy to 
just lurk, but you can't really lurk very well with the pipermail 
archives.  So, they figure they need to sign up for the list.  Many 
(not all) of the people that chime in with "me, too" whenever this 
forum topic comes up don't even realize there is already a read-only 
forum interface.  That's really all that a lurker needs.

-JAC