C-L-sum list usefulness - feed back requested | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Cohousing-L summary list (c-l-sumcohousing.org) | |
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 12:37:21 -0800 (PST) |
Hi, I've been producing and emailing the weekly cohousing-L summary for about 10 months now. There are currently 21 subscribers. I guess I expected more people to find it useful and subscribe. If you have comments on how useful you find c-l-sum, how you use it, suggestions, please write with any feedback. Do you actually browse the archives of cohousing-L ( at: http://lists.cohousing.org/archives/cohousing-l/ ) and read any messages there as a result of the c-l-sum mailings? Below are some more thoughts about the list, feel free to read on but a response to the above only would aso be appreciated. Fred, listserv manager One problem is explaining clearly and simply how to use it. I've tried to do so on the web page http://L.cohousing.org/c-l-sum.htm but don't think I have been very successul. Suggestions on wording would be welcome. I'm wondering if it would be simpler and better to simply advise people who are subscribed to cohousing-L to unsubscribe from cohousing-L rather than suggesting the confusing "no mail" mode. The summaries are mostly produced by a program but I "tweak" them some - grouping similar message lines, putting longer threads at the top etc. The order of messages in the summary is different than in the archives. Finding a given message (without editing a URL which is hard to explain) can be a nuisance. I've pondered modifying the format slightly to put the day of the month a message was sent in. Example: From the way it is now: A Private person in cohousing FROM: Charlene McNamara-24807 to A Private person in cohousing FROM: Charlene McNamara-06-24807 where the added "06-" means it was archived on the 6th of the month. Do you think this would be helpful? ( One way to find messages now is to note a message's number and then look down the archive index for that message number. But the message number is only displayed at the bottom of most browsers when the mouse is over the link to it. While messages numbers are generally in order a few are not (those that are held for my approval (for example if they are sent from a non subscribed address). Messages are archived in order of date sent but numbers are assigned in the order they were distributed. More difficult to explain details... Fred, listserv manager -- Fred H. Olson Minneapolis,MN 55411 USA (near north Mpls) Communications for Justice - My new listserv org. UU, Linux My Link Page: http://fholson.cohousing.org Ham radio:WB0YQM fholson at cohousing.org 612-588-9532 (7am-10pm Central time)
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