Re: email design

Rick,

96% of the world's computer users are Windows users. Less than 1% are
Midrange people.  If your assertion is that this should be a general
computing forum, that's going to mean wading through 700ish messages to
get a single Midrange-related one.

If that's the plan, I'm out, I'm gone.  I think you'll find that almost
everyone here agrees with me on that.

Even in the much smaller, much narrower in scope world of the IBM
midrange, I don't want to read every single message on every single topic.
I only want to read certain topics.

When I post a question, I want the people who are experts in that
particular topic to help me.  I don't want to miss out on the expert
advice of someone just because he doesn't want to wade through 100
irrelevant posts to get to something he's interested in.

When I search the archives, I want to know where to start.  I don't want
to have to search the MI list for RPG programming tips, or search WDSCi
for information about configuring a printer.  Keeping to the topic is a
good thing, it helps EVERYONE, even people who aren't subscribed to the
lists, since they still have access to the archives.

David is not anything like a "police" force.  He's very kind and very cool
about these things.  He has to say something now and then, or the
usefulness of Midrange.com will suffer greatly.


On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Rick Rayburn wrote:
>
> In the end, it really doesn't matter whether we use 15 lists or 1 list to
> discuss a computing subject...there are far more worse things happening in
> our world...and in our little niche of the computing industry as well...to
> be exercising any time looking over peoples shoulder to ensure they
> pidgeon-hole into the list you want them to post in.
>