[GRLUG] Tech magazines for sale or trade - GRLUG-Classifieds

[Godwin]

It make sense...  This really isn't a super busy list after all.
Prefix(ing) the subject with "one offs" questions has worked so far.
Thanks.

G-

On Dec 2, 2007 9:36 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2007 1:24 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My opinion would be to not bother
> > for now.  At present there is more
> > discussion of multiple lists than
> > discussion itself.  If/when the current
> > list becomes bogged down with
> > meaningful entries it might be time to
> > consider fragmenting the topics.
>
> For a community of this size, it really doesn't make sense to fragment
> the mailing lists.  Subtopic mailing lists will just grow stale as
> people who were once on them stop participating.  You can't really ask
> every new person to sign up to the other mailing lists, because you
> don't know who the new people are, or when they sign up.
>
> Joe newbie will write a message to the mailing list saying he's got a
> PC for sale, and will be told by some person to another to take it to
> the classifieds mailing list.  Joe might subsequently post to the
> sublist, but, chances are, anyone who might see it there already saw
> it on the mailing list, and will have responded if they're interested,
> regardless.
>
> I really prefer settling on prefixes for the subject line.  Easy to
> figure out once you've seen it, and easy to filter out, if you don't
> care for it.  FOR SALE is a good prefix for sales.  WANTED is a good
> prefix for anything someone might be looking for.
>
> I don't see how things like copyright (I remember when the argument
> against DRM and the DMCA was that you couldn't watch the stuff on
> Linux.) and bittorrent filtering (Remember when people used Linux
> distros as a prime example of legitimate use?) are offtopic for the
> list, but I suppose one could be pendantic and say anything not unique
> to Linux could be prefixed with "GENERAL".  But I still think you'd
> see more general posts than posts without any prefix.
>
> --
> :wq
>
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