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

[Roppola, Antti - BRS]

I strongly agree with risks of overly compartmentalising lists.

Perhaps some gentle guidelines for people to recognise warning signs of
debates that are bogging down?

And I do mean guidelines. In general, the open mandate makes for a much
more interesting list.

I am reminded of an old UseNet axiom about post value being inversely
proportional to the length of a thread.

Cheers,

Antti 

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-bounces at lists.samba.org
[mailto:linux-bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Nemo
Sent: Monday, 14 September 2009 10:28 AM
To: linux at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [clug] An alternate place for longer, meandering threads?


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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> linux mailing list
> linux at lists.samba.org
> https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/linux
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