[clue] [ADMIN] Mailing list technical questions

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> Brad Morgan wrote:
>>> The announcement and job lists will be restored. There are no plans to
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> That's interesting.  I wish you'd attributed the quote because I haven't seen that post yet.
> 
>> Can someone please explain to me the differences between one list with tags
>> and multiple lists without tags?
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> There seem to be two possibilities:
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> a) tags are fairly arbitrary and flexible and made up by whoever is posting
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> Filtering on that turns out to be an exercise in AI, and not very interesting.  I can filter much 
> better on a full subject line than a short tag.  My computer can't filter on either if they are 
> arbitrary.
> 
> b) we make a list of official tags for the kinds of topics we want to segment
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> This seems the same as multiple lists.  Except that with multiple lists the sender filters rather 
> than the receiver.  I'm happy to filter by selecting a to: address.  I'm not happy to do it with 
> tags, because my software doesn't make it easy.
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> Gus pointed out that there are other cultures that use tags successfully (though in a forum rather 
> than a mailing list).  This culture has not done that.  It will be interesting to see whether tags 
> catch on.  Probably some "save the planet" style propaganda would help.
PIClist uses tags   and it is a mailing list....  gus in denver  99gus
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> Dave