I avoided this forum a long time because I felt like I'm in a nutshell on a big ocean. For me the number of postings was (and is!) overwhelming. No chance to keep really up to date.

On the other hand it would be clearly not better to have all of the tmo noise on mailing lists. High traffic mailing lists are hard to follow too.

For me now it's only a question of organization. I read the mailinglists (sometime more, sometime less) and I get an instant mail notification from tmo threads I have subscribed to (actual more than 80 but I think only a few are "active"). New threads I normaly only get by searching or using seeing something interesting in the "Active topics" section. That opens the "tmo"doors for me

I can clearly understand if there are people not willing to read tmo every day. I also cann accept if there are people not willing to subscribe to mailing lists. I simply think there will be always people active in both (and more!) communication channels and willing to build bridges between them. And there are way more of these channels: irc, wiki, wiki-talk, bugzilla, ... I believe that there will be some kind of self regulation.