Re: LI traffic and a proposal

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Mrinal Kalakrishnan wrote:

> OK, back to the "split" discussion.. ;-)

Looks like a concept I can deal with in less than a 100 lines... ;-)

> Hmm.. so will you be maintaining that extra "list" of non-subscribers
> email addresses who are allowed posting privileges? And will that be
> common for all the lists, or do I have to bug you for each one? :-)

LI should become an announcement-only list, and the only posts on that
will come from the list admins reporting on happenings around the lists
(something like "your daily/weekly LI noo^H^Hews"), events, statistics,
clippings, etc. Maybe announcements from ILUGs, too.

Yes, that would mean that you need to send your post to an address meant
to handle stuff like that, which will then be poked at by a real live
human (possibly without a QuickCam in his bedroom) and possibly included
in LI. But that's it - no discussions in LI.

> What's going to happen to the LI-digest? Is the digest going to be
> scrapped altogether, or is there going to be a digest list for each
> individual list? Or, a combined digest with messages from all lists?
> (I don't know if this is possible..)

LID will probably die, but the other lists would all have digest options,
so not to fear. You will probably be thankful for that, especially because
it will give you an option *not* to receive a huge megabyte-sized LIG
digest monster.... ;-)

Atul