proposed solution to signal to noise ratio problem

[David Nicol]

http://www.google.com/search?q=mlug lists dozens.  Which do you have in mind?

But anyway, if KCLUG mailing list is not a good resource for your
technical issues,
don't use it for that.  In my opinion KCLUG is a social organization
as well as a forum
with technical discussions too.  I think splitting the list would
exacerbate the problem.

Mailing list culture is an organic, free-market kind of thing, and
trying to impose some
kind of structure tends to make such things less vibrant.

So if those guys in Melbournewaulkeeidwayizzou have a split mailing list, with
tech discussions on one channel and optional off-tech ranting on the other and
that works for them I'm happy for them.

I enjoy the off-topic ranting.  In fact I consider getting to read the
off-topic ranting
my payment for the occasional piece of useful advice I provide.  Which
is getting less
and less often as I become progressively less of a young fart.

On 2/18/06, Jason Clinton <me at jasonclinton.com> wrote:
>
> By looking at their mailing list archives, it seems that MLUG's
> application of this idea seems to have worked quite well for them...
>
> Thoughts?
> --
> Jason Clinton <me at jasonclinton.com>

I top post you.

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