Doesn't everyone have a delete key to delete those they don't want to read.
Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "alex wetmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 4:43 PM Subject: Re: OT: Labelling messages by topic D: S: F: P: OT: and so on (2) > On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Dr E D F Williams wrote: > > Labelling the subject in some simple way would not only help people like me > > to eliminate unwanted posts -- but an F: for film would help select the > > desirable ones as well. If the task becomes too laborious, as it often does, > > I may sacrifice all and lose valuable exchanges as a result. Is that what > > you want? Don't you care if your messages are read or not? Many members, > > Boris for instance, get a lot from PDML and he is a lively contributor -- I > > don't know where he finds the time. There are others like him. Easy > > identification of the subject might help them as well. > > I think it would be more effective to split the list into sublists. > Off the top of my head I would recommend these 6 lists (perhaps with > shorter names): > > pentax-screwmount - discussion of M42 screwmount lenses and cameras > pentax-kmount-film - discussion of K-mount film cameras and lenses > pentax-kmount-digital - discussion of K-mount digital cameras and lenses > pentax-general-photography - discussion of general photographic topics > and critiques of photographs > pentax-medium-format - 645 and 67 camera discussion > pentax-off-topic - all of the other stuff that has nothing to do with > photography that often consumes 50% or more of the list traffic. > > There is a little overlap on k-mount lenses (they can go under the > film or digital section), but I think that is appropriate. People > with digital Pentax SLRs often have different requirements for lenses > than those with film SLRs due to the crop factor and some of the > issues that only come up with digital. Plus there are digital only > lenses now like the DA 16-45/4. > > There might be room for a 7th list to talk about P&S cameras, but that > isn't a very popular topic on here. You don't want to fragement lists > too much because the less used ones tend to die anyway. Given that > a different split might make more sense: > > pentax-35mm - All 35mm film Pentax cameras > pentax-digital - All pentax digital cameras > pentax-medium-format - All Pentax medium format cameras > pentax-off-topic > pentax-photography > > I would love to see such a split. Currently I find it impossible to > keep up with this list because there is so much off topic banter. > If the lists were split this way I'd join pentax-digital and > pentax-photography. > > alex > >
