Re: [tlug] Re: Suggestions for splitting of mails?

[CL <az.4tlug@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:
> On 07/08/07, Gernot Hassenpflug <aikishugyo@example.com> wrote:
>
> > On topic: I think the ideas for relevant subject modifiers are good
> > too, given the situation where people don't actually remember what
> > "subject" means :-)
>
> Well, there is what subject means, and what it has come to mean. Like
> it or not, correct or not, I'd say the vast majority of people, like
> Gmail, use subject for lite threading.

I think that subject modifiers are an expert solution to a primarily 
amateur problem.  If you don't want to chase off new list members, I'd 
suggest that, if you really can't stop yourselves from committing this, 
you go no further than a single level below the [tlug] / [lingo] 
modifier and that the next hierarchic level consist of not more than 
five sub-heads.

Being among the newest and the noobiest list members I would have bailed 
out immediately if I'd seen a complex list of sub-heads, many of which I 
do not yet know the meaning of.  I don't have the time to learn how to 
dance when I just came to practice my singing.  Being a part of the 
leadership of another user group, I have come to appreciate keeping 
things simple for the sake of promoting traffic.  Interest in 
subdividing the subdivisions usually occurs hand-in-glove with 
old-timers asking why they have to answer the same stupid question for 
the 85th time this year ... and then, vacation is over and there are 
more important things to worry about ...

Submitted with all due respect ...

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CL