[Courses] One list, or separate lists?

Jenn Vesperman jenn at anthill.echidna.id.au
Fri Mar 1 09:38:07 EST 2002


On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 06:30, Amanda Babcock wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:20:51PM -0500, Raven, corporate courtesan wrote:
> 
> > On the one hand, it would be nice to keep the courses together.  On the 
> > other hand, I don't want to bore or annoy people who are only interested 
> > in C with lots of security traffic.
> 
> Setting up separate lists could get into a lot of different lists, though
> maybe temporary lists wouldn't be a bad idea, with the courses list being
> used as an overall coordination/announcement of new courses thing.

Mailman doesn't delete lists gracefully, and I don't want the sysadmin
load of temporary lists. So: No temporary lists on this server.

We also already have enough lists that I get newbies occasionally saying
'but which list do I want to be on'. I'm against adding a list for each
course.


Jenn V.
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