Jim Popovitch wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
Matthias Leisi wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Christopher Morrow < morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
Whilst I don't agree with the way that Yahoo has done this (particularly around communication), how could they have communicated this better? how can we all learn from
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au> wrote: this?
They could have communicated, as in "listen folks, we are going to make a critical change that will affect mailing lists (etc...) in four weeks time".
They could have made the change not late on a Friday afternoon (or well into the weekend for most of the world).
On the weekend before tax filings are due in the US! And a couple of days before Passover. and in the middle of Heartbleed.....
It's enough to make you believe there was absolutely no care or concern for others.
And.. it's worth contrasting the community response to Heartbleed - which didn't actually cause widespread denial of service! Miles -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra