Re: [ICANN-EU] MEMO requesting discussion: Structuring a large ML

[Adrian Suter <adrian.lists@wortrei.ch>]

At 00:53 20.08.00 +0300, Constantine S. Chassapis wrote:

>SELF-ORGANIZATION AND READABILITY
>OF A LARGE MESSAGE LIST
>
>By Constantine Chassapis <cschassapis@acm.org>
>
>Version 0.1 of August 19, 2000;
>Submitted to icann-europe@fitug.de ML.
>
>
>This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices
>for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and
>suggestions for improvements.

Above all, this is not true. This memo does not even specify a "current 
practice", and I doubt very much about the "best".

[SUM-UP, COLLECTION etc.]

It just won't work.

If you want to make it work, you have to set up two mailing lists: one for 
announcements (which would be: articles to start a thread, sum-ups and 
collections) and one for discussions. The first ML should be moderated. The 
second should be a subscriber of the first one, thus allowing people to 
subscribe to only one of the two. If they see something on the 
announcements-list, they can subscribe the discussion-list and follow that 
particular thread. Others can always participate in discussions, and others 
again might prefer to read only the sum-ups.

That system could work, but newsgroups might be much more approproiate for 
such an approach.

Adrian