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

[steven smith <sjs@example.com>]

CL wrote:
> 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 ...
Amen.

Steve S.