Hans Fugal wrote:
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 at 12:13 -0600, Shane Hathaway wrote:
Simple solution: create a second mailing list, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
Also, perhaps it would help to rename this list to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", to
gently remind posters what the topic is supposed to be.
I like constructive ideas. Let's talk about this. What you want to do is
separate the community from the on-topic discussion. I submit that this
is impossible. However it is a frequently-proposed idea so maybe we
should try the experiment. The best part about it is that the benevolent
dictatorship doesn't have to be involved - anyone at all can set up a
separate list and we as a democracy can decide to take our off-topic
posts there. So I propose somebody set up this list and invite people to
take off-topic discussions there.
It would have to be done by the administrator of the plug mail server.
(Is that you?) Otherwise the list would be in a different domain, and
culturally, switching to a different domain feels like switching
communities.
Also, let me reverse the suggestion: [email protected] should be the general
discussion, and the new group should be more topic-focused. However,
all current members should be subscribed automatically to the new
on-topic group.
Shane
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