If we are going to subdivide lists, I would prefer to see just one for
unicode-related
topics and one for the more general languages, internationalization and
localization topics.
Anything not related to any of these belongs somewhere else.
I guess I would like to see one other list where people discuss, review,
announce, and promote
products that use Unicode. Currently it is difficult to know which
products, operating systems and tools
support Unicode, and how well they support it. A list where the
marketers could have at it, and users
can air their opinions would be a great asset for promoting unicode
usage.
tex
Tom Emerson wrote:
>
> Indeed.
>
> What do people think about the following options:
>
> - Create multiple mailing lists, unicode-announce, unicode-development,
> unicode-standard
> - Add digest support to each of these. The traffic wouldn't always be so bad
> if we had digests that could be skimmed quickly once a day.
> - Set up, as Heinz suggests, an NNTP server at unicode.org for each of the
> above groups and mirror the mailing lists to these. That would allow people
> to see threaded discussions.
>
> I'm sure we (Basis Technology) could provide support for hosting these.
>
> -tree
>
> --
> Tom Emerson Basis Technology Corp.
> Sr. Language Hacker http://www.basistech.com
> "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you suck forever"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: heinz.baumann@autodesk.com [mailto:heinz.baumann@autodesk.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 4:07 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: RE: off topic emails
>
> You hit the nail on the head! I'm getting to this point too, where I ask
> myself whether I should unsubscribe, although once in a while their is some
> useful information coming across.
> I acutely like to suggest to the Unicode Con. to create a Unicode news
> group, to encourage all subscriber to move the discussion from this e-mail
> alias over to the news group and to use this e-mail list for announcements
> and changes in the Unicode standard and its consortium.
>
> Thanks
> Heinz
>
> Heinz Baumann
> Software Development Manager
> AutoCAD Software Development
> Design Solutions Group
> Autodesk Inc.
> E-mail: heinz.baumann@computer.org
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tex Texin [mailto:texin@progress.com]
> > Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 12:21 PM
> > To: Unicode List
> > Subject: off topic emails
> >
> >
> > The number of mails that are off-topic (or at least I consider
> > off-topic)
> > is getting high enough that I have to consider unsubscribing.
> > (For me the cost of downloading and/or deleting is significant.)
> >
> > Should the list become more pertinent or should we risk losing
> > subscribers?
> >
> >
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