[clug] An alternate place for longer, meandering threads?

[Nemo]

I'm of the reverse view. I've just recently moved to Brisbane and
the local group here has multiple lists - and frankly, they are
both [a] confusing to new users (what is the difference between
"Chat about Humbug, Un*x, and everything" and "The Humbug General
Mailing list"  ?!), and [b] tends to stifle conversation due to
fragmentation of what people are reading.  (of course, I don't think
anyone is suggesting that CLUG end up with 8 seperate lists...
(http://lists.humbug.org.au/mailman/listinfo), but I fear that any
multiplication of lists is a bad precedent. 

One of the joys of CLUG (and why I remain subscribed) is the very wide
range of geek topics that can be discussed and brought up easily by
anyone, without any overdue worry of someone shouting them down with
"not on topic, take it to the appropriate list". 

I sort my email by threads by default, so as far as my reading of the
list is concerned, it already *is* broken up by subject matter.

.../Nemo






On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 09:50:38AM +1000, Jessica Fryer did utter:
> I'd be all in favour of breaking up the list by subject matter.  There are a
> lot of posts coming through every day and I would be happy to choose the
> topics that interest me.
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