[NTLUG:Discuss] NTLUG Discuss Guidelines

[Stuart Yarus]

Offhand, I see two reasons for splitting a list: truly divergent topics and
too much traffic.  

I'm not sure there's enough traffic to justify another list.  At one
extreme, there are lists which generate too much traffic on a more-or-less
single topic, and are not split.  The results are usually not easy to work
with, but that's the way it is.  The number of messages that comes through
my inbox from discuss is usually well below my threshhold of pain.

Certainly many of the topics discussed are of no interest to some of us.
Once we start splitting discuss, there will be more fragmentation.  Where
does it end?

How many of us would subscribe to all the lists anyway?  (that's not a
rhetorical question, nor a request for a survey... yet)  I probably would,
because most everything Linux-connected is of interest to me; I like NTLUG
and the people connected to it; the traffic volume is not a problem for me;
and I learn things from the list - I'm far from guru status.

I like the status quo.

At 04:50 PM 03/27/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>With regards the separate list ideas....
>
>We may want to consider deprecating "discuss".
>
>I think it's reasonable to have a "help" list, but I worry about
>changing
>the meaning of the "discuss" list if we keep that name.  Rename it,
>and I think there will less problems.
>
>I think most people regard the "discuss" list as the "help" list.
>If a "help" list is created, my guess is that many of the
>"old discuss" list people will want to subscribe to it ...enough to even
>suggest defaulting to it in a conversion.  Perhaps the "new discuss"
>or whatever it gets named (if you like this idea) would be the
>list which people would have to sign up "new" for.
>
>(pardon the awkward reading....hopefully I made something clear)
>
>Just an idea,
>Chris
>



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