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

[Jessica Fryer]

There's certainly an argument for that.  I'm astonished how quickly some
members became offended by the topic of feminism.  We're people, not
ferocious tigers! If we're experiencing problems integrating into the group
then I would oppose any moves to create a specifically feminist topic for
the occasional girl-focused post! (Just as it would not be appropriate to
have a "people born on Thursdays" topic, right guys?)

If the list was going to fragment I would certainly suggest an extremely
broad selection of categories: community and events, programming and
projects, administration and support.




On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Nemo <clug at nemo.house.cx> wrote:

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> 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
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> 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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