<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 27, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Neil Herber (nospam) wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">Having a -users and a -devel list would be a big help. I would subscribe<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">to both and I would always read -users, but I might save -devel posts<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">for a rainy day. ;-)</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS; min-height: 16.0px">And I could do the other way around. I find myself looking for devel posts, because I'm in a development cycle and need to know the absolute bleeding edge of PmWiki right now -- and find myself doing the more altruistic posts answering basic questions in moments when I shouldn't be allowing myself to be distracted. I could constantly comb -devel and read or answer -users posts over a relaxing cup of tea while eating my morning bagel. ;) I'm always afraid that the high volume will make someone slip through the cracks, even in my own pmwiki in-box (it's had its own inbox since forever), so I answer any posts that I see no one has answered to the best of my ability, on the theory that SOMEONE trying to answer, even if the answer stinks, is better than crickets and silence.</P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS; min-height: 16.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">A side note: I have been traveling a lot lately, and I had to install a<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">mail filter to move pmwiki-users posts into a separate folder so that my<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">web mail in box was not swamped. It was getting difficult to see the<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">non-pmwiki emails.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I have any post with "Criss" or "Crisses" stay in my normal in-box, and all other listmail goes to the pmwiki folder. So if I'm NOT in developer mode, and I'm doing graphic design work, in the middle of moving homes, etc. and totally ignoring that pmwiki even exists (I do that, believe it or not), if someone said "There's a problem with Blocklist3" "That's maintained by Crisses -- have you tried contacting her?" Poof! I'd suddenly be on the scene.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I run about a dozen lists that reached maturity and self-moderate, and that's how I deal with them also.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've been known to come around after several months and search my pmwiki box for any occurrance of "blocklist" etc. and check whether I missed anything important, or spot read through 3000 posts.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Crisses</DIV></BODY></HTML>