(keitai-l) Re: opin- coded list messages

From: Mika Tuupola <tuupola_at_appelsiini.net>
Date: 02/28/01
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10102281524370.1423-100000@aurinko.taivas.com>
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Darlington wrote:

> David is right about getting a ton of mail (especially on a WAP phone!).

	Subscribing to mailinglist and reading the mail with wap phone
	seem quite awkward to me anyway :)

> What lists such as this often do when a critical volume of messages starts
> to get regularly generated, is to split into a number of more specialised
> lists.

	Adding a code to subject line is a good idea but in practise
	it wont work. I've seen lists trying to do it never succeeding.
	It usually only leads to unnecessary threads about "hey you
	didnt use the word foo in your subject line".

	I dont feel this under 500 mails per months is too critical
	yet. There allready was an idea when KEITAI-L was born to have
	two different lists for technical and non-technical issues.
	It might be necessary later, maybe when the traffic starts
	to reach 1000 messages per month. Maybe earlier if you (the
	readers) feel that way.

	What everyone should do though is to try to avoid unnecessary
	oneliners (there arent too many, we seem to have seasoned
	netizens subscribing the list :) and to avoid unecessary 
	quoting.

-- 
Mika Tuupola                      http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/


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Received on Wed Feb 28 15:34:21 2001