On Fri, 16 May 1997, Mousse Lee wrote:
<*>>Stop looking at me like that. :P No, I mean it. This list has gotten
<*>>far, FAR too big. No one can reasonably read even a significant
<*>>percentage of the list traffic coming through consistently, day to day,
<*>>unless he or she has a GREAT deal of free time on his or her hands. And
<*>>that doesn't include actually *writing* fics instead of merely
<*>>reading/C&C'ing them, or whatever.
Hmm... Sorry, Damon. *smiles* I don't think it would be a good idea to go
splitting lists. Main problem would be that people would fragment and the
unity would vanish. *smiles*
Besides, maintaining seperate lists is easy to suggest, but much harder to
implement AND maintain. Besides, if say we wanted to know what was happening
in all the lists, we subscribe to all of them. A poster thinks to get to
everyone, he/she will have to post to all of the lists if the email is general
enough. We'd be increasing traffic, but not neccesarily increasing signal to
noise ratio.
<*> I go for the mass deletion theory.
I agree with mousse. If you don't care to read it, either don't read and save
it for later, or delete it.
That's what the [spam] tags are for.
<rest of damon's message snipped and mousse's suggestion snipped, but will be
paraphrased>
I like mousse's idea of a weekly summary of fic's posted. It has a nice ring
of organization to it. United we stand.. divided we hang... {as in idle time,
people. :p} *giggles*
Anyways, my only concern with a weekly summary is that it be tagged clearly
and that no one should just reply to it as in:
re: [weekly summary] blah blah blah...
I'd probably suggest that the weekly summary posts be their own one-way thread
and let people start new threads to comment on it.
That way, those who want to delete en'masse can do so without too much
confusion. Or am I just rambling now? :)
Anyways, to point it out,
when the ffml went down and there were two ffml's up in place of it, I kept
getting doubled email since I was subb'd to both.
Mousse is right, sticking together and working on better organization is the
way to go, not dividing up. Division will only bring seperation of wild
imaginations and hard working creativity.
The membership numbers on the list isn't as important as the structure of the
list.
Wing.
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