[SustainableTompkins] Maintaining list integrity

[Thomas Shelley]

At 03:07 PM 11/16/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Patricia,
>
>I'm not talking so much about geography as about subject matter. ...rest 
>deleted...

Dear List Members--I agree whole heartedly with Jon.  I "owned", for 
several years, a large, professionally oriented, topical mailing list (600 
subscribers!) run off the Cornell listserv.  Off-topic threads had to be 
squelched quickly or I would have dozens of subscribers resign at once as 
they didn't have the time or inclination to participate in a mailing list 
that roamed all over the place.

I think it is important to maintain a focus on sustainability and have 
posts on animal conservation, anit-war efforts, etc., be redirected to 
suitable lists or forums.  [Steve, have you considered setting the list up 
as a monitored list?]  I have enjoyed the list and have participated in 
discussions on and off, but I plow through over 200 e-mails each day and 
don't want to waste my time on stuff that isn't related to sustainability, 
either.

My $.02.  Tom

Tom Shelley
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