Re: how to make mail lists scale well

[John R Levine]

> Mailing lists are not inflexible, it is the management interface that is
> inflexible.

It's true.  My sister and I have fooled around with sort of a hybrid
between e-mail and web boards, in which e-mail messages would have links
or buttons like "stop sending me this thread" or "do send me this thread",
with a default to send the first two or three messages of each thread.  
The main problem is that the only practical way I can see to do this is
with HTML e-mail which is so dangerous and buggy that I wouldn't want to
inflict it on anyone.

Regards,
John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
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