File spoon-archives/list-proposals.archive/list-p_1995/list-p_Jun.95, message 119


Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 22:53:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: fido <jfr10-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: moribund setup


> > Why is seminar-11 not "available"? 
> 
> Have we finished discussing collage?  Not I, I am not done.  

But my dear, of the 3 messages in the archive, the last one--an 
announcement for a conference (the other 2 are test messages)--is dated 
Feb. 19. From the archive it looks as if discussion of collage was 
finished before the archive was set up. I _think_ I've been on that list 
since it was started, but who knows?...

> > What happens when a list is moribund?
> 
> I don't think anybody knows when a list is moribund. 

Hm...

> > How difficult is it to set up a list? What is involved? 
> 
> It's easy, once you know.  It involves creating a directory, four files,
> creating some new system aliases, and running a program that reads in
> the new system aliases.   
> 
> > Why should spoon expand? 
> 
> My personal response is that Spoon should just do whatever it wants 
> and can do.  I, for one, find some of the proposed ideas worth trying,
> and would like to try them.  

Right. But I don't see why a) using lists on which nothing is happening 
is bad, or why b) shutting down lists on which nothing is happening is bad.
This just seems like housekeeping--perhaps not a forte, but in this heat 
nothing is. I wish someone could explain these things to me.

What you say above is, to simplify, it is easy-peezy to set up lists
(meaning not sets of subscribers but the spaces), but it is really hard to
get rid of them (again meaning the spaces). Isn't this kind of a problem?

-f

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