Need for a new list?

[Jane Neale]

I too, would like to see the technical/programming topics remain within
web4lib. We all have delete keys for those threads for which we have
neither time or interest.

Has there been any feedback from the web4lib listowner? 

If there are two lists, people may subscribe to both, and questions that
are relevant to both will inevitably get cross-posted, resulting in even
more e-mail! Listservs have sort of a "genetic drift"  of their own. I
am not sure that splintering off more listservs is a good solution.

I would prefer to keep the diversity of topics the broad list offers,
and discuss programming technique in the context of policy and content,
and policy should be discussed with programmers and content folks
around, etc, etc. We all rely on each other for that perspective. 

The archive of this list is a tremendous resource and I would hate to
see its utility dissipated.

Thanks for the .2!!


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	-----Original Message-----
	From:	murilo bastos cunha [SMTP:murilobc at guarany.cpd.unb.br]
	Sent:	Monday, March 09, 1998 8:15 AM
	To:	Multiple recipients of list
	Subject:	Re: Need for a new list?

	I agree with Ms Roberts and with the solution she proposed.
Prof. Murilo 
	Cunha

	On Sun, 8 Mar 1998 dianna.roberts at opus.co.nz wrote:

	> I would not like to see a separate list limited to technical
discussions 
	> only. Mailings on such topics could still be sent to Web4Lib
but include in 
	> the subject header a phrase such as "Tech Topic" so that
non-techies can 
	> delete without reading if wished. I am on a music mailing list
which uses 
	> this ploy (except that in this case they use the phrase
"Gearheads Only.")
	> 
	> Although I do not generally have a specific need for any
information on 
	> perl, cgi, etc. I find it useful to have an awareness of such
issues, 
	> especially as I may one day unexpectedly find out that I am
expected to know 
	> about them.
	> 
	> Dianna Roberts
	> 
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