[tlug] [ADMIN] Trim!

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

Trimming example; trim between the XXX marks.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: steven smith <sjs@example.com>
Date: 08-Aug-2007 11:59
Subject: Re: [tlug] Re: Suggestions for splitting of mails?
To: Tokyo Linux Users Group <tlug@example.com>

CL wrote:
> I think that subject modifiers are an expert solution to a primarily
> amateur problem.
XXX
> 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 ...
>
XXX
Amen. [...]