John,
Taking a poll is a lousy idea. You are giving people that have never and  
probably will never add anything to the list decide what direction we go in. I  
think if anyone wanted to, they could certainly express their opinions freely 
on  da list. I think the majority of the people like it just fine. Everyone 
knows  how to use the delete button. There are times when I don't have the time 
to read  all posts, but will sift through the ones that are sailing related.
 
Rummy
 
 
In a message dated 7/22/2008 4:58:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jlock at relevantarts.com writes:

At 04:25  PM 7/22/2008 -0400, Michael D. Weisner wrote:

>I wonder if we can try to  solve the problem a bit differently than chasing
>otherwise good folks  off the list.  Maybe John can set up a third
>distribution mode in  addition to "Non-digested" and "Digested", something
>called "Sailing  limited" which would only receive items of sailing interest.
>Maybe we  could use a prefixed subject line modifier such as "Sailing:" to
>direct  these posts to the limited list as well as the general list.
>Forgetting  to add the subject line modifier will only affect those who do
>not wish  to be on "da list", not the rest of us.  John, is such a  thing
>doable?

Doable, but probably not practical.  Besides  the programing involved, 
it depends on the poster remembering to place the  magic word in the 
subject line.  We all know how well THAT  works!

Seriously... before we can discuss making any changes, we need  more 
information.  Right now we have no sense of what the majority  
wants.  We've heard from the usual suspects on what they want, but  
there are 268 list members; most of whom have not stated a  preference.

We might assume that everything is hunky-dory, since we  don't have 
268 complaints.  But that may be because no good  alternatives have 
been proposed.

I'd like to suggest a simple  poll.  I can whip one up in a few 
minutes and post the URL to the  list.  We'll run it for a couple 
weeks and see what kind of stats  come out.  Might be interesting to 
have some facts to kick around...  yes?

Cheers!

John Lock
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