NBLUG mailing list setup

[Joseph McCarty]

Neither newbie nor guru, but somewhere in between, I like the talk list as
one entity.  I like seeing what bugs newcomers, and I enjoy the suggestions
offered by experienced folk for moe complicated scenarios.  If the list
split, I'd have to subscribe to both.

Joe McCarty
jatlee at pacbell.net
707-545-2462

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Eisenhart" <eric at nblug.org>
To: <talk at nblug.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 12:42 AM
Subject: NBLUG mailing list setup


> I'm working on converting our existing mailing list setup into something
> easier to deal with than the current setup.  Easier to administer, easier
> for users to control their own setup, etc.  (For those of you familiar
with
> it, I mean Mailman)  My apologies to anybody that accidentally got
> subscribed and then quickly unsubscribed from the Board list; just delete
> the messages.
>
> Sometime soon (when we're ready) there'll be a message or two with the new
> info; current members of the lists wouldn't have to do anything, but the
> mechanisms for unsubscribing, subscribing, opting for digests, etc. would
be
> totally different.
>
> Back when we first did the lists we saw the need to have announce and talk
> separate; but with an average of a post every few days there was no need
to
> think about breaking up the talk list.  I couldn't help but notice that we
> now have a much higher amount of traffic and that it seems to slowly
climb.
>
> So, what do people think of dividing talk into two lists?  What would the
> lists be?  talk and talk-tech?  talk and talk-newbie?  talk-tech,
> talk-newbie and talk-general?
>
> Is traffic on talk currently an issue for anybody?  Is there anybody out
> there who wants to see some of the talk traffic but doesn't want to see
> other parts of it?
> --
> Eric Eisenhart
> NBLUG Co-Founder & President Pro Tempore for Life
> The North Bay Linux Users Group
> http://nblug.org/
> eric at nblug.org, IRC: Freiheit at freenode, AIM: falschfreiheit, ICQ: 48217244