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On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Grant Sewell wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:42:00 +0000 > J Wonnacott wrote: > >> Another mailing list I am on has categories for messages and I was >> wondering if this is something we may like to consider using here. I >> find it useful on the other list as there are some topics I am very >> inerested in, some which I may read if not busy at the time and some >> which I definitely don't want. Admittedly the heading would take some >> planning but for a start we could have 'Help wanted', 'Meetings', >> 'Winges about M$', 'For sale/wanted', 'Web links', etc. >> >> Any comments? >> >> James > > Personally, I am against the idea. I quite like having > everything-under-one-roof as it means that I receive messages about > topics that I would not necessarily have thought I'd be interested in, > but upon reading them, I am. > > Also, things frequently get quite off-topic... would these kind of > messages have to be moved to other lists, breaking the threading of a > topic? Threading is good, and these days probably one of the better ways to keep things organised. I can trivially follow (or ignore) a thread using my chosen email client (pine) and it makes sure when I reply, the thread references are kept in-tact. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html