Re: Topic threading tech (not this list in particular) (was: Dividing The List Considered Harmful)

2007-03-28 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:15:13PM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On 3/27/07, Mark E. Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Oh, and back to a previous subject... simply changing the subject text > >isn't really enough. When a threat mutates, you really want a new one, > >which means getting rid of the

Threading and digests (was: Dividing The List Considered Harmful)

2007-03-28 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/27/07, Ric Werme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On the technical side, one problem with this list is that it's infeasible for digest recipients to reply to a thread and preserve the thread history ... Switching your settings from "plain text" to a MIME digest will solve this problem for you (

Re: Completely OT - room numbers [Was Re: Dividing The List Considered Harmful]

2007-03-27 Thread Seth Cohn
On 3/27/07, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/27/07, Jeffry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm not just arguing to be argumentative (that's room 12A) > > Isn't that room 3b? No it's not! On behalf of the barrister firm of Leach, Cleese and Bartlett, please stop this silliness b

Re: Dividing The List Considered Harmful [Was: Re: Subject Lines on the Mailing list: [WAS: Looking for a NH mail list talking about Linux]]

2007-03-27 Thread Ben Scott
During and immediately after the Sept 11 attacks, the US Air Traffic Control system was faced with an unprecedented challenge: Respond to a concerted effort to use passenger airliners as flying bombs, while at the same time grounding all civilian air traffic. This had never been done before. Th

Re: Dividing The List Considered Harmful [Was: Re: Subject Lines on the Mailing list: [WAS: Looking for a NH mail list talking about Linux]]

2007-03-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
If anybody is tallying votes, my vote is: 1: don't split the mailing list. 2: encourage members of this list to stay on topic in the way that we always have. 3: treat members like adults 4: expect members to be adults If you have been on this list for any amount of time and you have

Topic threading tech (not this list in particular) (was: Dividing The List Considered Harmful)

2007-03-27 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/27/07, Mark E. Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh, and back to a previous subject... simply changing the subject text isn't really enough. When a threat mutates, you really want a new one, which means getting rid of the "References" links. Hmmm. Interesting take. I've always found t

Re: Completely OT - room numbers [Was Re: Dividing The List Considered Harmful]

2007-03-27 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/27/07, Jeffry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not just arguing to be argumentative (that's room 12A) Isn't that room 3b? No it's not! -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/l

Re: Dividing The List Considered Harmful [Was: Re: Subject Lines on the Mailing list: [WAS: Looking for a NH mail list talking about Linux]]

2007-03-27 Thread Mark E. Mallett
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:45:49PM -0400, mike ledoux wrote: > > I have been through this a few times in the past, with different > groups, where the decision was eventually made to fragment the list > into multiple lists with more focused charters. I have, to date, > never seen it work well. Wi

Re: Dividing The List Considered Harmful

2007-03-27 Thread Ric Werme
Drew Van Zandt profferred his $0.02: > If a couple of guys are posting something you're tired of hearing about on > the list, and you don't want to do some sort of filtering to drop > it... send all those discussing it on list an OFF-LIST polite note "Isn't > that sort of offtopic?  The chatter's

Completely OT - room numbers [Was Re: Dividing The List Considered Harmful]

2007-03-27 Thread Jeffry Smith
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:52:01AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > I'm not just arguing to be argumentative (that's room 12A); these > are questions that would need to be answered for anything like a list > charter to be drawn up. Isn't that room 3b? jeff _

Re: Dividing The List Considered Harmful [Was: Re: Subject Lines on the Mailing list: [WAS: Looking for a NH mail list talking about Linux]]

2007-03-27 Thread Tom Buskey
That's the strongest argument I've heard against splitting. Thank you for changing my opinion. Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment :-) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlu

Re: Dividing The List Considered Harmful [Was: Re: Subject Lines on the Mailing list: [WAS: Looking for a NH mail list talking about Linux]]

2007-03-27 Thread Drew Van Zandt
My $0.02: If a couple of guys are posting something you're tired of hearing about on the list, and you don't want to do some sort of filtering to drop it... send all those discussing it on list an OFF-LIST polite note "Isn't that sort of offtopic? The chatter's drowning out the Linux talk." I do

Dividing The List Considered Harmful [Was: Re: Subject Lines on the Mailing list: [WAS: Looking for a NH mail list talking about Linux]]

2007-03-27 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:52:01AM -0400, Ben Scott wrote: [...] > I'm not just arguing to be argumentative (that's room 12A); these > are questions that would need to be answered for anything like a list > charter to be drawn up. > > >... (and then ignore them later with the proper subject line)