[Elecraft] Limit topics in email

[Walter Underwood]

E-mail is not a relic, it is a survivor.

Back in the 1980's, I managed 50+ internal discussion groups for HP, along with maintaining the threaded "notesfiles" newsreader software. I've also managed large mailing lists, and a largish web forum for a product. The webforum was the worst, a constant timesuck. Mailing lists are rather easy to manage.

Today, I get get hundreds of messages per day and visit zero forums. Forum interfaces are clumsy and inefficient and I would have to visit each one to check whether there was anything new. It would be like having to walk to different mailboxes for each person who might send me mail.

wunder
K6WRU

On May 7, 2014, at 4:45 AM, Slava Baytalskiy <slavka at nullserv.com> wrote:

> There are times (just about all the time, really) when i wish that this list would join the 21 century (just like their radios) and get converted to a FORUM (BB, phpnuke, etc..).
> This is so very archaic...
> No offense to anyone, the content on here is priceless, goes without saying. But a mailing list???
> 
> __________________
> Slava (Sal) B, W2RMS
> W2RMS at arrl.net
> 
> On May 7, 2014, at 1:18 AM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT <KX3 at ColdRocksHotBrooms.com> wrote:
> 
>> There are times when I wish the Elecraft list was by model (and not just one big list) and then there are times when I learn things that apply to my KX3 that would never have been posted to a KX3 list.
>> 
>> ... and that reminded me of a tool I used to use called POPFile.
>> 
>> While I used it for spam filtering (it's a Bayesian filter so it learns to classify mail by example), I'm using similar Bayesian algorithms built-in to Thunderbird for anti-spam.
>> 
>> What POPFile does that's somewhat unique is that it will classify on really any criteria, not just good/bad (non-spam vs. spam).
>> 
>> It could be applied to this list to sort it by interest area (portable, antenna, contesting, firmware, etc.) and with a little training (a few days) give someone exactly what they'd want.
>> 
>> You'd find it at http://getpopfile.org.
>> 
>> As for implemented/unimplemented features, the list is operated by QTH.net.  They run a whole stack of amateur radio related lists using Mailman, which is free software.  It works reasonably well, but I don't think QTH.net makes a lot of money on list management, and probably isn't too motivated to fix issues.
>> 
>> There is the KX3 Yahoo group, but the signal/noise ratio is really kind of awful, IMHO.
>> 
>> 73 -- Lynn
>> 
>> On 5/6/2014 9:39 PM, HREFAB wrote:
>>> Good answers all, but it's the part in the subscription page that isn't
>>> really working. I think if that were implemented, then I could simply
>>> subscribe to the KX3 thread and be done with it. If not, then I'll probably
>>> just unsubscribve to it all and check manually.
>> 
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