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On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:38:29AM -0400, mjd-list-bootstrap@plover.com wrote: > A few people have made comments to the effect that the number of > mailing lists must not grow to be too large. But I think it would be > a shame to decide this by accident. it seems to me that a workable > alternative would be to assume that there would be a few big, > important mailing lists, but also that these would spin off small, > temporary mailing lists whose purpose was to resolve some side issue > and then present the conclusion back to the main group. > > I suggested to Nat that we could set up a web page or some other > mechanism that would make it very easy to create a mailing list > quickly and then to destroy it again later. (I would volunteer for > this if necessary.) The technical issues are not difficult, because > of EZMLM. The security issues also do not seem to be difficult. > > I would be interested in whether this seems to be a good idea. Sounds like a good idea to me. I think these lists should also be at least loosely moderated to prevent what happened to bootstrap. Having someone around with a strong sense of what's on-topic and what's not helps keep everyone in check. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff duff@cbi.tamucc.edu