That's cool. Thanks for pointing it out.

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James.
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Singer
> Sent: 2004 Oct 18, Mon 12:49
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: [OT] Subscription patterns to Mailman's lists.
> 
> Was "Re: [OT] Looking for a few good... moderators"
> 
> 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:
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> You could subscribe to the PIClist using a Yahoo or Hotmail account. 
> 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 - 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.
>   
> (Forgive me James for advertising Google as a personal search 
> engine and archiver for PICList).
> 
> Another great Gmail feature is - "the hole thread on one 
> page" - 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.
> 
> ---
> PS. Sorry for pure [OT] input these weeks.
> 
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