[Callers] Identifying Dances (Was "Anyone know this dance?"]

Winston, Alan P. via Callers callers at lists.sharedweight.net
Tue Nov 24 15:57:31 PST 2015



On 11/24/2015 3:47 PM, Aahz Maruch via Callers wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015, Jeremy Gmail via Callers wrote:
>> So what can we do?  We could all ask on [Callers] but we'd soon get
>> fed up with the forum being taken over.  I wondered about a "please
>> identify this dance" (sub-)forum, similar to the many "ask the expert"
>> forums (fora?) you see in the IT community.
>>
>> Do members have any thoughts about this?  Will it work?  How do we get
>> people on it? What are the issues?  Is there a batter / alternative
>> approach?
> First of all, I think making changes is a bit premature -- nobody AFAIK
> is complaining about the current stream of requests.  That said, Mailman
> has the ability to create "virtual" mailing lists called topics:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/node29.html
>
> It would be straightforward -- once we agree on any topic names -- for
> Seth/Chris to implement topic filtering.

Aahz speaks for me on this.  I don't find the current level any problem 
at all, and a sub-list tag
wouldn't be a problem either.

-- Alan



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