Re: how to make mail lists scale well

[J C Lawrence]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:58:45 +0100 
Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Do you have ideas for addressing the scaling problems of large
> mailing lists?

The problems are not technical but human.

> I've been thinking about this a lot, and the best idea that I've
> come up with is to use an edited ezine format for internet-based
> conversations that are intended to attract many participants.  A
> live example of this idea (still in its early stages) is online at
> http://integrity-in-politics.com/

> What do you think about this approach?

Its a format question.  The Edited magazine form works very well for
small populations of authors and more lecture/pontificating
structures rather than discussionary.  Handling scaling of a
discussion based forum for very large numbers is a problem,
especially when the normal solution of fracting the subject into
sub-topics doesn't/can't be applied.

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