> The idea of dividing into specialties seems to upset a few > people. I'm not sure if that's because they're afraid > they'll miss some discussion, or if it's because they're > afraid somebody will miss them discussing something. If the > former, specialty lists shouldn't cause them any problems -- > they can just join them all. If the latter, I don't have a > whole lot of sympathy.
Blogs handle specialties a lot better with tags. If the new list is not just mail-ops but includes all Internet service ops stuff which is peripheral to the core list, it allows us to experiment with tags. If tags are included in subject lines, it makes I easier for procmailers to filter them. Or people can subscribe to an RSS feed with only the tags that they want. Then again, maybe what we really need to do is to think even bigger in terms of getting all the content from all the other special purpose lists, flowing through some kind of a NANOG newscenter which tags them and sorts them and creates a whole set of tagged RSS feeds for people to subscribe to. --Michael Dillon
