[Air-L] Mailing List Discussion

[Sugar, Benjamin N]

Hey everyone,

I thought it might be a good idea to fork this discussion about the mailing list into a new topic.  For the backstory, the discussion started at Air-L Digest, Vol 175, Issue 30, Message 4, R: Inquiry on screen shots.

I seems the general consensus (which I’ve come to agree with) is that the list should remain as it has for reasons including accessibility of email, archivability, and not wanting the list to become purely announcement based.  Having said that, there also seems to be an acknowledgment that this is not without trade offs.

The biggest one for me is the inclusion of the entire reply thread in each reply.  I did some research and it seems that finding a more automated solution would require some programming of the backend.  In lieu of that, perhaps an easier (?) way to mitigate this would be to change the text in the header of the list to something to the effect of:

"When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest…” and remove any contents from the previous thread except direct quotations.  A threaded web interface can be found at http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org”

Benjamin

PS: As an aside, the link to web interface that is in the footer of every message is broken.