Remosi’s Rants

Seth talks about issues with mailing lists becoming overcrowded and ending up with a low signal:noise ratio, which then kills the list, and a new list starts up with more or less the same ideas and the list cycles again

Seth proposes that thousands of adhoc lists are created where people can move to. Mailman already has a similar feature, where you can put a “[tag]” in the subject of a mailing list and then people who want to recieve those emails can select to see them (or not see them) as the case may be. I’ve not investigated this feature very much, nor do I know if this feature can be done on a much more adhoc basis (eg, just creating “sublists” by adding a [”tag”] to your header). So this might require a bit more human intervention by a maintainer creating a new “sublist” and then asking people to move threads to the new sublist, then “garbage collecting” the sublists later.

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