[consulting] Closing down the consulting mailing list?

[HOUSEOFCAKES]

  Hi,

I have posted on this list, I'm a lurker as I'm learning Drupal (well, I 
have it installed. . . I'll get to it), nor do I really have time or 
expertise to post/contribute, but thought I would throw a couple of 
thoughts in here as I think there's something I can contribute to. I 
haven't carefully read all the posts, but my general sense is this:

1. I have appreciated this list for what it is and the wide range of 
Drupal topics it covers. As a self-employed person, I get something from 
all the posts--from job/consulting/business concepts to technical things.
2. Agreed this list could use some moderation, but maybe people should 
just moderate themselves and not reply post to things that are not 
Drupal or Drupal business-related. I think there is general sense on 
what is "off-topic" more or less (e.g. the capitalism v. socialism which 
I love to talk about--in addition to the barter system but not on this 
list). It *seems* like subscribers don't mind the range of DRUPAL topics 
(business, technical, etc.) that come to this list.
3. This list, like IRC is a community for a lot of people, which means 
that people might go off on tangents. Have you been on IRC lately? How 
often do people stick to topic? It's like a party room sometimes. I 
guess we could all respect people's time and say "No off-topics on this 
list.  Go on IRC."
4. If you close down the list or revamp it based on what a couple of 
vocal subscribers are saying, I think you might be missing the forest 
for the trees. You might want to do a survey and get a larger sampling 
of what people's perceptions are of this list and what they expect and 
base your list (and/or moderating) on what people want/need.
5. If you split the list into micro-groups, you might end up killing all 
the plants instead of just the weeds (sorry for my plant analogies). 
Then, we'd all have to find the X number of groups to join, join those 
(probably smaller) groups and thusly, kind of kill the traffic.
6. Please trim msgs when replying :) It's hard enough to follow threads!

My $0.02.

Karen

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