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I follow what feels like a lot of mailing lists of libraries that I use and I think that there is a lot to learn by the questions people ask in them. I don't ask many questions in them and I answer some, but not lots of questions that people ask. I try to be the first to answer a question in which I know the answer, it's kind of a game almost. I feel that if I can get to the point where I can answer nearly every question that's asked, I've successfully learned the framework/library/etc.
Does anybody else feel that they've learned from following lists? Is it a waste of time?
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These lists are important as they provide leads for sales, a group for testing new products and a group to provide feedback on satisfaction. Mailing lists may be lists of physical addresses or email addresses. It is a good idea to include as much information with the mailing list as possible.
The following are just a few of the many opportunities for making the most of a customer mailing list for businesses: Track which services/products are used or purchased by that customer. Track how they make purchases. Track how often they contact customer service. With business mailing lists for marketing, segmentation is imperative.
The more detail that you capture in your mailing list, the more options you have for targeting your mailings. But make sure that the detailed data that you track is the data that you will use. The more complexity you add to your mailing list, the more work you must do to maintain your list.
Use a rule in GMail to slap a label on and archive all of them. Then they are easily sortable, searchable, and threaded. I just use Thunderbird. For some lists, in flat mode, for others (the Lua mailing list), in threaded mode. Following is natural for mailing list, the messages are pushed to your client.
Yes of course. Reading a mailing list is essentially like being a fly on the wall of the meeting room of the product authors. How could you not benefit from that kind of exposure :).
Also, at the end of the day you are reading content riddled information about a subject you are interested in. True it's not a book and the occasional flame war / off topic threads popup. But it's still reading and interacting on some level with the subject matter you're interested in.
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I've learned a lot from the Alt.Net mailing list, and my own local user group mailing list. One note on the local mailing list: not only is it an excellent way to learn new ideas, and keep up with what is going on, it is a great way to find local experts. People you can have over for a beer (or lesser beverage of choice) to discuss problems. For more involved issues, that is often the best way to solve them. I find that you are much more likely to find actual mentorship in these mailing lists as well -- and less RTFM (you don't get that as much when people can find out where you live).
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