On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Matthias Leisi <matthias@leisi.net> wrote:
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".
communicated it where?
"The Internet".
I was trying, really, to be not-funny with my question. if you're going to do something that has the potential to affect (say, for example) email to a wide set of people, most of which are NOT your direct users, how do you go about making that public? 'the internet' isn't really a good answer for 'how do you notify'. Doug's note that: "email mailops" is good... but I'm not sure how many people that run lists listen to mailops? (I don't ... i don't run any big list, but...) I also wonder about update cycles for software in this realm? and for very larger list operators there's probably some customization and such to hurdle over on the upgrade path, eh? so how much leadtime is enough? how much is too much? 1yr seems like a long time - people will forget, 1wk doesn't seem like enough to avoid firedrills and un-intended bugs.
A blog entry and a post to a few key relevant mailing lists would have
specifically which mail-lists?
resulted in the message spreading far better than it was. There's no way that they could have communicated it to every mailing list admin on the planet, but they could have at least given a heads-up to some major parts of the community.
The great thing about the Internet is that if it's important enough to be shared, you don't need to try too hard to make that happen - others will look after it for you. But you need to make the effort to get it started, and Yahoo didn't do that here (or at least, they did, but they did it by actually making the change by which time it was too late!)
Scott