[Ns-developers] ns-3-users list (was Re: Short ns-3 Intro Slides)

[Gustavo Carneiro]

On 20/03/2008, Lloyd Wood <L.Wood at surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> At Thursday 20/03/2008 17:44 +0000, Tom Henderson wrote:
>
> >Now that we are starting to see new users of ns-3, the project needs to
> decide upon a mailing list for ns-3 users.  There are two obvious
> options:  i) reuse existing ns-users mailing list, and ii) create a new
> ns-3-users list.
>
>
> Set up a new list and call it "ns-3-contributors"
>
> The idea being that developer >> contributor >> user, and that people can
> be guided to the appropriate level. It may make sense to set up an
> ns-2-contributors list as well, where there's discussion of patches to ns-2
> for new functionality, rather than the 'what is tcl' queries from the
> yahoo/hotmail crowd. We're not at the ns-3-users mass-adoption stage yet, I
> think.


Sure, but when ns-3 becomes "mass-ready" does it make sense to rename the
mailing list, or force everyone to re-subscribe another list?  I am
personally in favour of keeping the name ns-3-users instead.

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
INESC Porto, Telecommunications and Multimedia Unit
"The universe is always one step beyond logic." -- Frank Herbert