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In lugnet.admin.general, Jeff Johnston writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Tom Stangl writes:
> > The problem with setting it up on OneList is that you'd need multiple lists - • I
> > have no interest in anything but Town, Train, and Technic, I could care less • about
> > others. If you had one big honking eGroups list, I'd be getting a lot of • useless
> > email.
>
> Er, I'm getting kind of confused by this whole mailing list idea. What
> exactly is the advantage of setting up a mailing list, as opposed to just
> posting to lugnet.b-s-t?
None really, unless you wanted the "new" service (I would not).
>
> Would people rather receive stuff like this in their email instead of
> looking in bst/auction? (I can see not wanting to receive all posts from
> those NGs, though, only ones that you were interested in.)
I would not. But many may want to see a BST post ASAP so thay can get the item
before anyone else. May readers uses the S@H specials group like that (I think)
>
> Would having .bst.town, bst.castle, etc be a better solution? (You can
> always subscribe to the NG as a mailing list...) Then people could xpost
> to market.bst and .market.bst.castleorwhatever, and those people only
> interested in Castle could just check the .castle group, and those
> interested in other stuff need never see the castle posts (unless they
> look in the main group).
I have seen this mention before - it is still a good idea.
>
> I think this might be a bit more efficient use of already-existing
> resources, but the big TL will have to make the call on that.
Yep.
Scott A
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> J
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