Re: [Scottish] This Mailing List
I like it as it is too... Steve Logan wrote: As a long time lurker I must say I like it as it is... Colin McKinnon wrote: willie fleming wrote: I am toying with the idea of splitting the list into two or possibly three. I don't really feel overwhelmed by mailings. I like the mix. and possibly 3) slug-off-topic scurrilous rumours and cars for sale etc A taste of things to come, Willie? Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] This Mailing List
As a recently arrived lurker I agree with those who think the list is OK the way it is. Adding suitable tags to allow people to filter as they wish sounds good to me. Denis Leslie On Thursday 05 December 2002 22:03, you wrote: Hi Folks I've taken over the care and feeding of the mailing list to take some of the load off Tony. I am toying with the idea of splitting the list into two or possibly three. 1) slug-announce list -- low traffic with mostly just the formal notification of the monthly meeting and any other announcements 2) slug-chat -- medium traffic the standard mailinglist stuff and possibly 3) slug-off-topic scurrilous rumours and cars for sale etc To acheive this we'd need to change our hosting arrangements and Kenny Duffus has kindly offered to do this for us. Anyway, thats what I think, much more importantly, what do you lot think of this? And while we are at it, please tell me how you would want to see the mailing list improved. I dont intend making any hasty changes and Im going to leave a couple of weeks so you can come back with comments, suggestions, flames etc BTW if anyone subscribed to the list from addresses that are now dormant (and you can remember them) let me know and I'll tidy up the subscribers list. To change any of your mailing list options in the meantime, please visit http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Theres a link there to the archives too. Remember you can join us on IRC at eu.freenode.net on channel #scotlug All SLUG people welcome! ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] This Mailing List
willie fleming wrote: I am toying with the idea of splitting the list into two or possibly three. I don't really feel overwhelmed by mailings. I like the mix. and possibly 3) slug-off-topic scurrilous rumours and cars for sale etc A taste of things to come, Willie? Colin ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] This Mailing List
I am toying with the idea of splitting the list into two or possibly three. 1) slug-announce list -- low traffic with mostly just the formal notification of the monthly meeting and any other announcements I like this idea, this list should be moderated and be low traffic so I think some people will just want to join this one so they can get official notice of meetings and other events. 2) slug-chat -- medium traffic the standard mailinglist stuff and possibly 3) slug-off-topic scurrilous rumours and cars for sale etc I don't like this idea. Threads tend to drift on and off topic, and having threads go across two different mailing lists would be tricky. Also the definition of Off-Topic is unclear, is this list for Linux users in Scotland, Open Source operating systems or Computers? Currently the list seems to be for messages who would interest a significant proportion of the members of the group and I like it that way. Perhaps a policy requesting descriptive subject lines (and changing them if the topic of the thread changes,) so that people can ignore threads that are of no interest, would be better. Also perhaps requesting that messages not related to Computing should be tagged by [OT] to allow automated filtering. Steven Murdoch. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
RE: [Scottish] This Mailing List
Title: RE: [Scottish] This Mailing List * This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. * Hi Folks I've taken over the care and feeding of the mailing list to take some of the load off Tony. I am toying with the idea of splitting the list into two or possibly three. 1) slug-announce list -- low traffic with mostly just the formal notification of the monthly meeting and any other announcements 2) slug-chat -- medium traffic the standard mailinglist stuff and possibly 3) slug-off-topic scurrilous rumours and cars for sale etc The list does not, to me, seem to be high enough traffic to make this worth your hassle. If people want a simply [OT] in the subject could be a warning and people could make filters based on that. cds
Re: [Scottish] This Mailing List
I am toying with the idea of splitting the list into two or possibly three. Splendid! 1) slug-announce list -- low traffic with mostly just the formal notification of the monthly meeting and any other announcements 2) slug-chat -- medium traffic the standard mailinglist stuff They sound good. and possibly 3) slug-off-topic scurrilous rumours and cars for sale etc Excellent! Especially if we don't have to subscribe to all three :-) A thought on 1) though. There are very few announcements other than the monthly meeting, so consider having slug-meeting instead of slug-announce and move the 'is anyone going to talk about anything this month?' threads there also? [On the subject of which...I'm still happy to talk about the care and feeding of regular expressions sometime in the New Year if anyone is interested. It's occasionally handy to know that '^(Siz|Nam)e +:' is more efficient than '^Size +:|^Name +:' on many regex engines, and even more frequently handy to know that the difference isn't significant in this case if one is clearer to you than the other. :-) ] Part of me thinks there would be some value in splitting the list further into hardware/applications/OS/other stuff...but since we're so light on traffic anyway I think that would be pretty pointless for now. Cheers, M -- Martin McCarthy // http://www.non-prophet.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]\\ http://www.ancient-scotland.co.uk //http://www.ehabitat.demon.co.uk ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
