sublists

[Dan Simoes <dans>]

Since the topic has been raised...

Sublists are very much on my mind.  These are the issues:

- "I have limited time and don't want to read 1000 messages and have to
find the 10 that pertain to my vehicle"
- "I have a new A4/A6/TT - who cares about Pentosin?"
- "The spirit of the list will be lost if we go to sublists"

The obivous issue is, how do we grow?  The 20v, Scars, and V8 lists have
all become successful, and have probably developed their own cameraderie.
So it can be done.  But, should it?

One idea I have is to segment the lists something like this:

several "type" lists: 4k/80/90/CQ, 5k/100/200/S4/S6.  But, where does that
leave the urQ?  On the 4k list, or on the latter, since it uses a turbo
engine?  The real danger in segmenting is that valuable knowledge will
be lost.  Phil will read the urQ list but why should he read the 5k
list, since he doesn't have one (applying the logic of those recently crying 
for the type 44 list)

Still, segmenting can be done, if we figure out where to draw broad circles.
"Old" cars vs "new"?

I certainly want to have a general announcements list, where people who 
are browing the archives via the web can join this so they may post to the 
lists.  The list will probably be moderated, low traffic, and used for
one-time annoucements of important things, social events, etc.

Another sublist idea is for a "help" list.  This is the way it would work - 
those with "fix it" experience agree to act as experts.  People may send
a detailed request for help to the list, but no replies will
go to the list.  Instead, all replies go to the poster, who will collect
the replies and collate them into a summary.  This summary is then sent to
the list and archived for later use.  
Of course, most of this info is already in the archives, it just needs to
be fished out (and I am working on that as well).

Your feedback is welcome.

| Dan |
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