On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Curt Sampson wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Michael Turner wrote:
>
>> I implore you: when posting, think about whether a significant
>> percentage of list members signed up to read something like what
>> you're about to telö them. Try to tie it to issues of Japanese mobile
>> telephony wherever possible. Consider pursuing discussions off-list
> It seems the list quite regularly veers from mundane discussions of
> current technology into long, impassioned discussion of what we all
> hope for from the future. Personally, it's for these latter discussions
> that I really subscribe. Perhaps we need to split the list into two, one
Ok, this is just another natural phase in the life cycle of
a mailinglist. Lets not start a metadiscussion on what should
be discussed on the list.
Couple of notes and advices to people on the list:
1) Personally I don't like the way most of the threads have
turned out recently. You know, discussions like:
A: turn on ROT13 it's really really secure!
B: You know ROT13 is really trivial to crack, therefore
it is't really secure.
A: I refuse to admit its secure. It can be made secure
if I add additional security measures on it. Therefore
ROT13 is secure!!
This is not really productive.
2) In my experience most people will stop reading if the
email is longer than 2 screenfulls of text. This does not
mean there is or never will be any policy againts long mails.
I'm just saying more people will read what you have to say
if you keep it short.
3) The bias on this list is Japanese market.
4) Discussions are interesting. Endless speculation and
arguing is not.
What I would like to happen is to refocus KEITAI-L back to more
like it still was last month. Any replies to this should come
to me private not on the list.
Thanks.
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Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
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Received on Thu Aug 16 13:12:34 2001