From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Tue Mar 27 20:35:55 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 28 Mar 2001 04:35:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 94653 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2001 04:35:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 28 Mar 2001 04:35:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta2 with SMTP; 28 Mar 2001 04:35:54 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.10.0/8.10.0/ITS-5.0/standard) with ESMTP id f2S4ZsB24678 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:35:54 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:35:54 -0700 (MST) To: Subject: list splitting (was: Re: lojban audial recognition etc.) In-Reply-To: <002501c0b739$6af2f4a0$825681ce@wlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Jay Kominek X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 6267 > What about creating another Yahoo group? There could be lojban (how to best > learn Lojban) and lojban2 (philosophical discussions and word debate). > Newcomers could sign up for the former until they're interested in > participating in the lojban2 debates. > > I'm sure there's a better split into 2 or 3 groups than I've suggested > above -- any ideas? taking traffic away from the list at this point would probably not be a wise idea. it needs everything it can get to have a self-sustaining level of conversation. i think the lojban list is probably only 50 or so odd subscribers above the self-sustaining point, and distracting anyone could have a bad impact on all list traffic. i would strongly suggest keeping everything consolidated until the membership on this list gets to around 350 or even 400. (yes, that will probably mean twice the traffic or so on the list, but more is better, in the long run. one can always delete excess traffic and then peruse the archives later if need be. such a simple solution for creating traffic does not exist.) it may be wise, however, for people to start inserting some simple tags into the subject lines, like [DEBATE], [WORD], [PHILOSOPHY] so that people uninterested in such matters may most easily avoid them. - Jay Kominek Waiting Is.