[members-discuss] Is mailing list become too small for RIPE?

Hi

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Jérôme Nicolle <jerome at ceriz.fr> wrote:
> Hi Lu,
>
> Le 19/02/2016 16:56, Lu Heng a écrit :
>> You are clearly a looser by using those words.
>>
>> I barely making a suggestion so keep your temple.
>
> You're right, I'm getting hot-tempered due to the current lameness
> level, and apologize for that.
>
Accepted. Sorry about the looser part, but "LUser net" was really upsetting me.
> Let me be clear : we, as the Internet community, used to have rules,
> proven to be efficient. Year after year, less and less people respected
> them. It's now a real mess to keep a readable and productive thread
> going on a public ML.
>
> It's difficult to see how a less formal tool such as a web forum would
> help us structure our community. We'd have to rely on moderators, which
> could be prone to taking sides in some debates.
>
> By the way, text-only mails are responsive, readable by anyone (even
> disabled), and lightweighted, efficient way of conveing sense to the
> community. Why would we want anything else ?

To start with, I am not around as long as most people here, I start to
use internet when it was 1994, but many people here probably started
way easier than me,.

I agree with you to certain extend that text only Email communication
was effective, and moreover, clean and easy to read, lightweight to
transmit. I still remember the IRC communications I used to but almost
not that useful nowadays unless you want to talk to very specific
group of people.

However, please remember internet as it is today are far different
from what it was before, just like RIPE NCC today are not in the same
size as before, we have grown from barely 10 people speaking in the
list to over 10K, and keep growing at 2000 member a year base, we need
to find a solution for such huge discussion, just image a room with
10,000 people, it can be very hard to make things clear while
everybody is talking.

As I have been informed privately by a community member that RIPE NCC
are looking into solutions to the problem, I have faith in them that
such solution will come out rather quickly to meet the current demand
for clear communication between members.



>
> Best regards,
>
> --
> Jérôme Nicolle
> +33 6 19 31 27 14



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Kind regards.
Lu