- From: Stuart Williams <skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 00:32:43 -0000
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>
It is increasingly apparent that we need to remind ourselves of the purpose of www-tag and maybe reconsider the way we use it. Over the past couple of months we have seen a number of threads that have grown without limit and which the TAG itself has been unable process through sheer volume overload. The purpose of www-tag is: 1) for the TAG to conduct its technical discussion in public view 2) for the public to engage dialog *with* the TAG. Many of the larger and rapidly growing threads have little or no TAG involvement and have ceased to be a dialog *with* the TAG. The effect is counter-productive. There may be a good and serious point that needs some attention... but that stans a good change of being lost. Various folk (TAG members and public) will have developed a variety of strategies to manage their in-boxes which will include ignoring particular thread, ignoring particular contributors, and/or ignoring the list entirely. The TAG does have some guidelines for attracting its attention [1]. I will be revising them shortly. We intend to periodically update these guidelines in the light of continued experience and to periodically issue reminders of their existence. In addition to: "Therefore, before you post to www-tag, you should consider the following alternatives: a.. Is there another group within W3C that is more suited to address this issue? Check out the list of W3C mailing lists and list of W3C Activities. b.. General discussion about the Web should take place on www-talk@w3.org." If you are responding to a posting on www-tag I would urge you to consider: a) Have you posted more than once already on the same thread on the same day? If so, give TAG members a chance to respond before posting again. b) If the TAG are not engaged in the particular discussion, give serious consideration to the likelihood of your posting being ignored. As Tim says, we have no wish to discourage free and open discussion, but we would like ensure the list remains an effective tool for the TAG's technical discussion and for the TAG to engage in dialog with the public. Lastly, if you feel compelled to respond to this message, please restrict yourself to one posting (flame or otherwise) - and use it wisely. Stuart Williams Co-Chair W3C TAG -- [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/#tag-attn Message-ID: <3E4AC965.1080609@textuality.com> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:23:33 -0800 From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> To: www-tag@w3.org Subject: site metadata discussion is overly voluminous This discussion has rapidly overrun my ability to keep up with it. The immediate question at hand is whether the TAG should accept this as an issue. I don't want to discourage free and open discussion of the issues, but to be brutally realistic, the chance of having an impact is pretty well in inverse proportion to the volume of verbiage. Also, when I open an email and the quoted content fills the entire first screen so that I can't start reading what the poster is saying, I usually just delete the message right there. Others may have different approaches. -Tim
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