Proposal: new "plug-offtopic" email list [ linux related to phpBB2 ]

[Technomage-hawke]

has anyone ever looked at the idea of converting to a phpBB style forums here?
it would have all the news, ontopic and offtopic ares segregated. and if one 
wants to follow a specific forum, they can have the setting made for them to 
be e-mailed of new changes to that forum. 

I tend to do this a lot myself because it is easier for me to filter out what 
I need and what is obviously "junk" IMO. Thei is probably one of the first 
and last mailing lists I am on (the first because I joined it at its 
inception, and the last because it is one of the few I still subscribe to).

View this as "just a suggestion" to be discussed.

On Thursday 07 February 2008 10:30, Matt Graham wrote:
> From: Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com>
>
> > Craig White wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 09:59 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> >>> I propose that we create another email list.  It would be called
> >>> "plug-offtopic" and would be the place for everything not Linux/FS/OSS
> >>> related.
> >>
> >> no one will subscribe
> >
> > That is a danger but I disagree for the following reason.
> >
> > Right now off topic discussions have one resolution: the participants
> > "shut up" or go private.  I don't know how many times going private is
> > successful but telling people to be quiet when they feel they have
> > something worth saying is an off-putting thing.
> >
> > With the creation of an off topic list, the conversations have a place
> > to go. In other words we will have stronger topic enforcement here
> > while welcoming wider topics in the new list.
> >
> > It will work, I think.
>
> FWIW, on many, many, web forums devoted to topic $FOO, there is generally
> a "Things that are not $FOO and are offtopic" area.  This area tends to
> get quite a bit of traffic.  While mailing lists are not web forums, at
> least a comparison between the 2 would be comparing mammals to other
> mammals.  I think.
>
>
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