Power Trips

[Shane Hathaway]

Hans Fugal wrote:
> On Thu,  1 Sep 2005 at 12:13 -0600, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> 
>>Simple solution: create a second mailing list, "general at plug.org". 
>>Also, perhaps it would help to rename this list to "linux at plug.org", to 
>>gently remind posters what the topic is supposed to be.
> 
> 
> I like constructive ideas. Let's talk about this. What you want to do is
> separate the community from the on-topic discussion. I submit that this
> is impossible. However it is a frequently-proposed idea so maybe we
> should try the experiment. The best part about it is that the benevolent
> dictatorship doesn't have to be involved - anyone at all can set up a
> separate list and we as a democracy can decide to take our off-topic
> posts there. So I propose somebody set up this list and invite people to
> take off-topic discussions there.

It would have to be done by the administrator of the plug mail server. 
(Is that you?)  Otherwise the list would be in a different domain, and 
culturally, switching to a different domain feels like switching 
communities.

Also, let me reverse the suggestion: plug at plug.org should be the general 
discussion, and the new group should be more topic-focused.  However, 
all current members should be subscribed automatically to the new 
on-topic group.

Shane