Re: What's the purpose of this mailing list?

[Mary Van Sell <vansell@oakland.edu>]

I am very glad to have a place to send queries about the sources & wordings
of quotes.  I get a lot of these queries--the idea being, I suppose, because
I have lots of quotes on my site that I know about lots of others--and often
have no idea.  I've saved a few queries, in fact, for the time (if ever)
when I learn the answer.  And I have two quotes right now that I've seen
attributed to two different authors (each) & would like to know whose they
are.
About mixing ring management matters with queries about quotes:  how many
ring management matters are there, esp. now since you have the thing
well-established?  My guess is that there will be many queries about
quotes.  If you have no more than 3 or 4 ring management items a week (and I
can't imagine there would be that many), that in itself doesn't seem worth a
separate site to me.  I can see no problem here, but don't care one way or
the other except that I am curious what ring management items there are
(plain nosiness, this is).
Letting people post quotes on this site would be interesting, but I agree
that this is the purpose of our quote sites, & I could see that becoming a
huge (though irrelevant to the purpose) section of the postings.
Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> Doesn't he know that, you probably think...
>
> In the message you received, where I invited you to subscribe, I gave
> you a few hints about my ideas of what kind of messages to be posted.
> (At http://www.gunnar.cc/webring/quotes/mailarc/help/index.html you find
> the same info.) But I was intentionally vague, and I would certainly
> appreciate your input.
>
> - Do you agree on the whole?
>
> - I'm a little doubtful about mixing ring management matters and
>   postings with questions about quotes in the same mailing list.
>   What's your opinion?
>
> - If the list includes postings with questions about the sources
>   of quotes, the exact wording of quotes etc., we should also
>   encourage our quotes loving visitors to subscribe to the list
>   and participate in the discussions, shouldn't we?
>
> - For the time being I'm of the opinion that we should _not_
>   encourage people to post messages with quotes just to share
>   them with other people. That's what our quotes sites are for,
>   and there are also lots of other features out there already
>   filling that purpose. What's your opinion?
>
> Please post your comments and let us know what you think.
>
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> Ringmaster
>
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