[ADMIN] Re: Splitting lists.

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wednesday, March 15, 2000, at 10:57:49 AM, you wrote:
>>I believe that the most sensible suggestion by far has been to add a
>>small tag to the beginning of the subject letting everyone know to what
>>the message pertains.  For example; (I was going to send this out
>>earlier butsomeone beat me to it a day or so ago):

Inasmuch as that idea was mine, I'm glad he liked it.

> Yah, but most of these annoying questions come from newbies, who probably
> don't  have that kind of discipline - splitting the list makes it obvious.
> Who says we can't just subscribe to ALL the lists anyway, and simply trash
> the stuff we don't wanna read?  That's what I would do - simply filter all
> the lists into their respective folders and ignore most of the stuff in the
> Windows forum - unless it happened to have an interesting topic line.

This is how I see that, Jonathan: if we use one list and tags, then
the people who want to see only traffic on specific topics from
accomplished posters will filter, and miss the newbie traffic.  If the
newbies want those people to read their messages they'll learn to tag.

The people who want to be helpful to newbies who don't tag their
messages just won't filter, and then they won't have any reason to
complain.

And, if you split the list, there will be people who post to all the
lists anyway "just to make sure they don't miss the people they want
to have read their message".

If you _split_ the list, rather than TAGGING, there will be _no way_
to avoid those messages.  Splitting puts final control in the hands of
the poster, rather than the reader.  I prefer it the other way
around...

Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra "at" baylink.com
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