RE: Re: Does this list need to ban OT posts???

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is it worth setting up a poll, to gauge the true opinion of everyone, then
go with the majority?

Personally I like it exactly as it is - I do use forums, but not regularly,
and not offline, as I can with this ultra-simple email list.  Even after a
week away from email, it only took me 5 mins to filter out what I didn't
want to look at, so that's fine by me. I really don't see the issue with
just looking at the title and hitting delete if it's of no interest.  This
is, after all, a discussion group; sure, some of the posts are widely OT,
or
just plain lazy, but that's only by virtue of the fact that people know
that
there's a wealth of knowledge on here.

In some senses it really should be self-limiting, in that if someone asks a
numpty question that Google could answer in a second, then most people just
won't bother to reply.  It's a shame that some on-topic messages get
missed,
but equally that's a symptom of a mature list, in that most of us have
discussed the virtues of X10 vs Zwave vs CBus etc etc many times over, so
it
can sometimes take a while for someone to compose an answer.  Of course,
that's what we're here for, but all mailing lists are like that to some
extent.

Pete

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From: Phil Dye [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 28 June 2005 13:23
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Does this list need to ban OT posts???


On 28/06/05, Mark McCall <lists@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > Of course, you can't create sub-lists...but you could create a
sub-
forum
> ;-)
>
> I can do that quickly and easily.  What do people think?




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