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On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:06:24 +0000 (GMT) Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Grant Sewell wrote: > > > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:42:00 +0000 > > J Wonnacott wrote: > > > >> Another mailing list I am on has categories for messages and I was > >> wondering if this is something we may like to consider using here. > >> I find it useful on the other list as there are some topics I am > >> very inerested in, some which I may read if not busy at the time > >> and some which I definitely don't want. Admittedly the heading > >> would take some planning but for a start we could have 'Help > >> wanted', 'Meetings', 'Winges about M$', 'For sale/wanted', 'Web > >> links', etc. > >> > >> Any comments? > >> > >> James > > > > Personally, I am against the idea. I quite like having > > everything-under-one-roof as it means that I receive messages about > > topics that I would not necessarily have thought I'd be interested > > in, but upon reading them, I am. > > > > Also, things frequently get quite off-topic... would these kind of > > messages have to be moved to other lists, breaking the threading of > > a topic? > > Threading is good, and these days probably one of the better ways to > keep things organised. I can trivially follow (or ignore) a thread > using my chosen email client (pine) and it makes sure when I reply, > the thread references are kept in-tact. > > Gordon > Likewise in Claws-Mail (sometimes known as Sylpheed). Occasionally it misses a trick, but that seems to be when people reply to a thread, but change the subject line and content, and are essentially creating a whole new thread but not starting from scratch. :( Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html