[GRLUG] List Moderation

[john-thomas richards]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:04:08PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > Would anyone like to see a separate list, perhaps "chats at grlug.org"
> > where we can digress a topic?  If we wish to move far off from the
> > original post/request, we can simply Reply to original post, but send
> > to the other list instead.  For archiving purposes, it should help
> > those who google us searching for help from having to sift through
> > tons of irrelevant posts.
> > What do you guys think?
> 
> My experience managing other lists/forums is that this
> post-to-other-list just won't happen.  At first it won't happen because
> people won't remember or think of it,  later it won't happen because
> people will learn that when they do do it that it breaks the flow of the
> thread/conversation backing the post pointless.

We had a grlug-chat list for "off-topic" posts.  My mbox for it has 31
messages, five of which are from majordomo.  I do not think it will
work.
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john-thomas
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