Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
Actually, it would be best if we can have one mailing list, but give options which force people to either put
[Commercial] or [OffTopic] or [Technical] or [General]
Seems like a good idea to start with. Will let us stay away from the overhead (may be debatable since some people may not find this an overhead, and some people will...) of creating multiple lists. Instead of maintaining multiple list subscriptions we can maintain filters. If the need arises we can always add more categories without the need to create more lists. Offcourse we will have to hope that people properly categorize their mails... and not put mails with commercial content in the [technical] category. We can start with this approach and then scale up to multiple lists if this approach presents drawbacks that can be addressed with multiple lists. In any case instead of debating endlessly... lets decide on an immediate plan and implement it. I think we have some basic options: a> Let things be as they are b> Have multiple lists c> Have one list with a category in the subject line.
If anyone wishes to add more options... please do so. Lets decide on a last date to add more options (how about 31st March ?) and a last date to vote on them (3rd April ?) We can then implement the result of the vote.
regards Parag