I read through SEANET-L and VietNet, and I liked there labeling system.
SEANET-L begins the subject with the first four letters of the country
that the message talks about. For instance, 'Thai: NPKC and Political
Parties' and 'Burm: Nonviolent Stuggle'. VietNet, which was one damn
busy list, enclosed the topic of the messages within brackets such as
[jokes], [stories], [news], and the such. I subscribed to VietNet long
ago and drop it, so I am uncertain whether their topic convention is
still being used. (I drop it because the my mailbox was really piling
up by the day.) These topic conventions really help me on what I was
going to expect before I read them.
Also, I would like NativeNet be broken up into different regions in the
States and parts of the world. I read alot of stuff from many
lists and I don't have time to read everything I would like to read. So
I try to pick those that are the most interesting to be. Everytime I
peek into my mailbox, I try to figure out what the messages are
about before I read them. However, at times, the subject of the message
doesn't necessarily represent what the message was really about. For
instance, one of the 'Re: Focus on NativeNet' letters was about the
British Isles, or something like that, which was, to me, a tangent from the
discusion even though it was quite informative and somewhat funny to read.
I can understand that breaking up NativeNet to specific topics means
more facilitator time for the listowner or more listowners needed for
those lists. I listown AISESnet and I got some requests to
censor some mail to a subscribers with picky interests. For instance,
subscribers who were not interested in electrical engineering stuff didn't
want that type of mail. Instead they were more interested in Native
issues in the list, so they emailed me requesting for the censor. For me,
that meant modifying my software a little bit and more time figuring out
which message goes to who. Fortunately, AISESnet is rather quiet
now, so I can spend more time studying.
By the way, my mailer displays up to 29 characters of the subject
header.
That be all for now.
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