[Snowball] The snowballs thus far..

[Bill Cromwell]

On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 23:42 -0500, Jeramy Ross wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> We have both snowballs rolling around, and it all seems to be going pretty
> well!
> 
> We have 15 active participants so far, and some rumblings of more joining
> in later on.
> 
> This is great!!  However, some potential issues maybe popping up.  With the
> multiple groups, and snowballs... it becomes possible that we have a
> collision between the balls with one ball moving slower than the other.
> This becomes more of a possibility with more groups and more balls...
> 
> So... we have some options..  leave things, and plans, as they are and just
> deal with it when it happens.  Or modify things by limiting it to two
> groups and allowing them to grow as they will.  The larger group size
> somewhat limits the chances of the smowball wrecks...  OR change things to
> go back to just one big group with just one ball rolling through.  With the
> last option, you can expect the ball to roll through at least once or twice
> a year (with an assumed group size not much larger than what it would be
> today and an assumed speed of around the same of what we're seeing today).
> 
> Opinions??  Ideas??  Complaints??
> 
> :)
> 
> Have a good week everyone!
> 
> 73,
> Jeramy W5XTL

Hi Jeramy,

Murphy is an equal opportunity harasser so both snowballs will probably
have about the sames kinds of delays. I would think leaving it the way
it is is the best bet.

The one thing I did think about was mixing up the names so the people in
each group change around a little each time the snowballs restart. That
would have different people on each snowball list for each cycle. With
smaller groups that might not be as much of a benefit as with two
continuously growing lists.

73,

Bill  KU8H