Re:[MacPerl] We're all Macperlers on this bus...

["Jay Bedsole" <rwdd30@email.sps.mot.com>]

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Mostly lurking... mostly too busy to compose intelligent repartee...
mostly too busy dealing with 200+ emails a day... plus a real job...
plus a family... Seems like this discussion boils down to S/N
ratio - we're all afraid we'll have too much noise imbedded in the
signal and may miss the message. Problem is, one woman's signal is
another man's noise. There are benefits to constrained topics and
there are benefits to open forums... I wonder if the happy medium
is not constrained tolerance. I like Matthias's idea, but I'm not
sure what his proposed implementation was - what I was thinking
was something where the subject line has the 'MacPerl' keyword
and a subtopic keyword. Users would target their messages for
the appropriate forum and readers with modern mail readers can kill
or otherwise sort according to taste.

  [MacPerl-spc]  - Only MacPerl specific topics
  [MacPerl-tbx]  - Toolbox modules
  [MacPerl-bug]  - Bug reports, feature requests, etc.
  [MacPerl-www]  - CGI, HTML, mail, etc.
  [MacPerl-etc]  - Basically everything else, that is remotely
                   connected to MacPerl, Macs, or Perl...

There may be more categories required and posters and readers can
deal with these on-the-fly. For instance, Vicki may request a
forum [MacPerl-xpf] for a cross platform discussion. People who
care, can see these; people who don't, can block. If Chris is ranting
on-and-on about AppleScript, I can ask him to create a [MacPerl-asc]
forum and file those messages in my Trash folder (just kidding Chris).
Anyone who wants to see everything, can of course, accept anything
with MacPerl in the subject line...

One thing I've noticed since I joined the list (and Matthias may or
may not be able to confirm this) the number of postings is rising.
With the rising popularity of 'TheBook' and more and more open
discussions of MacPerl, the number of postings will continue to rise.
With the rising MacPerl population, you can bet that the S/N ratio
is going to go down. The best way to cope with noise is with filters.

If this is what you were proposing, Matthias, then I appologize
for restating the obvious.

With that, I propose three new topics:

    [MacPerl-philosophy-waxing]
    [MacPerl-pointless-complaining]
    [MacPerl-long-winded-recommendations]

jay

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