<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 10, 2007 5:45 PM, Godwin <<a href="mailto:geektoyz@gmail.com">geektoyz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It make sense... This really isn't a super busy list after all.<br>Prefix(ing) the subject with "one offs" questions has worked so far.<br>Thanks.<br><font color="#888888"><br>G-<br></font><p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div><p><DEFANGED_div class="Wj3C7c">
<br>On Dec 2, 2007 9:36 PM, Michael Mol <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On Dec 2, 2007 1:24 PM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br>> > My opinion would be to not bother<br>> > for now. At present there is more<br>> > discussion of multiple lists than<br>> > discussion itself. If/when the current<br>> > list becomes bogged down with
<br>> > meaningful entries it might be time to<br>> > consider fragmenting the topics.<br>><br>> For a community of this size, it really doesn't make sense to fragment<br>> the mailing lists. Subtopic mailing lists will just grow stale as
<br>> people who were once on them stop participating. You can't really ask<br>> every new person to sign up to the other mailing lists, because you<br>> don't know who the new people are, or when they sign up.
<br>><br>> Joe newbie will write a message to the mailing list saying he's got a<br>> PC for sale, and will be told by some person to another to take it to<br>> the classifieds mailing list. Joe might subsequently post to the
<br>> sublist, but, chances are, anyone who might see it there already saw<br>> it on the mailing list, and will have responded if they're interested,<br>> regardless.<br>><br>> I really prefer settling on prefixes for the subject line. Easy to
<br>> figure out once you've seen it, and easy to filter out, if you don't<br>> care for it. FOR SALE is a good prefix for sales. WANTED is a good<br>> prefix for anything someone might be looking for.<br>
><br>> I don't see how things like copyright (I remember when the argument<br>> against DRM and the DMCA was that you couldn't watch the stuff on<br>> Linux.) and bittorrent filtering (Remember when people used Linux
<br>> distros as a prime example of legitimate use?) are offtopic for the<br>> list, but I suppose one could be pendantic and say anything not unique<br>> to Linux could be prefixed with "GENERAL". But I still think you'd
<br>> see more general posts than posts without any prefix.<br>><br>> --<br>> :wq<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> grlug mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org">
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grlug@grlug.org</a><br><a href="http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug" target="_blank">http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug</a><br></p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div></blockquote></p><DEFANGED_div><br>One list seems to be the best bet. Our list goes days and sometimes weeks with no posts, multiple lists would mean more work and a waste of server space and time.
<br>Prefixes are the way to go.<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Marc Zuverink <<a href="mailto:mzuverink@gmail.com">mzuverink@gmail.com</a>><br><br>I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
<br>-Hunter S. Thompson