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RE: Type 44 list, sublists
I see you are alive and well, I thought this topic might bring in a word or
two from you.
You may or may not have seen my post "Sub-Lists no!..." But it's time to get
your input again. I've been thinking some more about this and (not at 5 am
though) there's something brewing in the ether just out of my grasp, but I
have a really good feeling that with a little help the Problem Specific
Indexes can really work to unify the lists and make them easier to use.
Any ideas?
Peter
1990 200TQ 10V
How about this:
(BTW can your e-mail program search strings in the body text?)
T44 - good but 33% longer than needed - 44
Engine - Cooling - Rad Fan - Electrical Failure - Not Working - Type 44 -
Turbo 10V (MC) - Quattro
Group/SubGroup/Part-Component/Symptom/Symptom Modifier/type/type
modifier/type modifier/
## / ## / #### / #### / ## / ## / ## / #
so let's make up some codes and we have an index that looks like this:
01/15/RF12/E123/01/44/MC/Q
so that's 26 characters including the separators that would make up the
first line of the message body in a reply to a question/problem. These
codes would be pulled from a standard set and do not have to be incredibly
specific yet could be really powerful.
If someone wants only 200TQ info, they subscribe to the list and indicate
**/**/****/****/44/MC/Q
If someone wants to post a question to the list - after reading the faq and
obtaining a copy of the index definitions a question could start
01/??/????/E123/01/44/??/Q leaving the unknowns either out or forcing the
would be listers to learn a little bit more about their own cars?
It's an idea that I think can work - what do you think?
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-quattro@audifans.com [mailto:owner-quattro@audifans.com]On
Behalf Of Doyt W. Echelberger
Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 9:00 PM
To: quattro@audifans.com
Subject: Type 44 list, sublists
I like the list the way it is.
I don't think we should be dropping the problem of creating sub-lists
exclusively onto Dan. I think we as a group could modify the way we write
our subject lines, so people who _want_ to filter model-specific stuff can
do it and avoid the more general threads.
Then, if a group of people don't want to be bothered with sorting through
the hundreds of messages on this general list, they can use software that
sorts out what they _do_ want to read about into specific mailboxes. Eudora
Pro 4.1 would do it.
That's what computers are good for....sorting stuff for people so the
people don't have to waste their time in that activity.
To make sorting more reliable and universally possible, contributors to the
general list could include qualifiers in the subject line, for the
convenience of the people who are focused on more narrow content. The words
"T44" anywhere in the subject line would allow all those type 44 focused
people to sort their mail they way they want to, without restricting the
others from reading it also. "4kQ" "UrQ" "V8" "S4" "S6" "A4" "A6" etc
would allow filtering but not _impose_ filtering on everyone.
If we go to sublists, I would need to be on as many as are being discussed,
so for me little would change. I wouldn't use filters.
Being a reader of the broad spectrum-thousand member-international quattro
list for several years has been endlessly educational and enlightening in
dozens of ways only peripherally related to actual mechanical Audi content.
I would be saddened if the list were to become constricted and subdivided
because some readers don't have time or the inclination to expose
themselves to such diversity. And they have a right to flee from it. And
they have IMO the responsibility to devise ways of doing it, and with just
a little help from the membership, they could flee the diversity of the
list without depriving the others of the opportunity to benefit from the
diversity.....software and filters.
And everything I said above, I learned about by reading threads generated
during discussions about moving the list from coimbra to audifans.
I bought my 5k because I heard so many interesting things about it while
subscribed as a 4kq owner. I want to read about all those other models and
what their owners are experiencing. I like the list the way it is.
Doyt Echelberger
86 4kq
87 5kcstq