Time for another list?

[Paul]

I agree with Andy

Paul Chick
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew M. Rudoff <andy@rudoff.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 7:42 AM
Subject: Re: Time for another list?


> >List and Andy:
> >
> >How about another list on which members of the pianotech list can chat?
> >Sometimes I like talking with other piano technicians about non-piano
stuff,
> >but sometimes I just don't have time for ten thousand messages about what
> >constitutes a dirty word. With one more list, I would subscribe to the
> >technical one all the time, and the chat one when I had time.
>
> The issue of the signal-to-noise ratio on this list comes up a few
> times a year, just as it does on most lists.  It is trivially easy
> to create another list -- we can do it at the drop of a hat.  But
> even if you created the "technical only" list, how would you make
> sure people stuck to the intent?  I would assume the posts would
> be as off-topic as they are on pianotech, unless the list is moderated.
>
> Moderating a list comes up every now and then too, but the job
> of moderator can be quite a time sync and I'm not sure we have
> anyone with that much time on their hands.
>
> So my advice is the same as always:  delete what you don't want,
> use filters and thread-wise delete features in your mail readers
> to organize the content and skip what you don't want to see.
>
> If we did locate a willing moderator, I would renew my suggestion
> that pianotech be the "raw" list that everyone posts to, and the
> moderator would draw from that content to produce a second list.
> People wanting to watch the raw content would use pianotech,
> people who only wanted to see the moderator's view of useful
> content would use pianotech-m (or whatever we called it).
>
> I know some threads get pretty noisy, but overall I think pianotech
> has proven to be a very valuable forum in its current form.
>
> -andy
>