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Koebel, Alen wrote:
> Sine our IT department discourages subscribing to mailing lists because
> of the traffic (if everyone did it...), I drop in and out of the list,
> subscribing only when I have a specific question (I check the archives
> first). Will I be a "newbie" every time I resubscribe?

Lawrence Lile wrote:
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You could subscribe to the PIClist using a Yahoo or Hotmail account.=20
This would accomplish two things, first it would not fill your
business inbox with traffic, and second protect your business inbox
from spam.  One of these days I should do this, myself.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Mailman seems to have some strange habits: when some setting(s)(say
address) is changed, mailman clears other settings to default. And the
defaults are "full channels on". Potentially some day this could cause
a real headache.

Don't know about Yahoo or Hotmail but Gmail has one (among others)
interesting feature =E2=80=93 filter based mail redirection (if I got it
correctly).
You can subscribe a Gmail account to all the list channels and then
when needed redirect to your main e-mail account the channel you are
interested in.
 =20
(Forgive me James for advertising Google as a personal search engine
and archiver for PICList).

Another great Gmail feature is =E2=80=93 "the hole thread on one page" =E2=
=80=93 very
nice indeed when you are to get quickly the context of a post.

Personally, If I were asked, I'd say that the decisive reason why
coming in of newbies is reducing is not well-discussed behavior of
some list members, but rather three other reasons:

1. Having been un-Googlable since March 2003.
2. Appearance of MCHP's forum.
3. Overall tendency of a hobbyist world to shift to other architectures.

Have no clue how to fix out 2. and 3.
But with the spam due to being Googlable we can fight by just not
showing addresses at all. (Well, I promised to behave nicely: I don't
cite (in)appropriate saying on this occasion)

Regards,
Mike.

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PS. Sorry for pure [OT] input these weeks.

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