On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 02:27:16PM -0700, Dan Cohen, CTT Inc. wrote:
>
> I'm not crazy about it either, but I now have over 400 messages from this
> group with no way of threading the discussions except by hand.
The archive at http://www.songbird.com/pab/mail is a hypermail
archive, sorted by thread. Right now it is a bit large -- perhaps
this weekend I will break it down into monthly chunks.
> The number
> of simultaneous discussions and the quantity of messages suggests that a
> web-based board or a USEnet newsgroup would be a more effective medium. I
> don't want to dwell too much on this issue - more constructive suggestions
> would be appreciated.
What are you using to read mail? As far as I know there are free
threaded mail readers on all major platforms.
BTW, this issue has come up in the past, and at that time, as I
recall, there was a fairly substantial vote for email.
> Any votes that come directly to my mailbox (no need to broadcast your vote
> to the list) over the next week will be tabulated and the results shared.
> a.) no change (listserver delivery)
> b.) USENet newsgroup
> c.) web-based discussion
Another thing you might want to peruse is the PAB charter, and the
description of the PAB voting mechanism. Both can be found at
http://www.songbird.com/pab/
-- Kent Crispin, PAB Chair "No reason to get excited", kent@songbird.com the thief he kindly spoke... PGP fingerprint: B1 8B 72 ED 55 21 5E 44 61 F4 58 0F 72 10 65 55 http://songbird.com/kent/pgp_key.html
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