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Re: [at-l] Why at-l and atml?
The double postings do get to be a bit much sometime. I try to limit
their use to announcements and limit my replies to the list
where the discussion is the heaviest. And I slip up frequently.
But deleting the extras is no biggie for me.
Ryan started AT-L years ago. Wingfoot wanted a strong
e-mail presence associated with Trailplace when he started it
a year+ ago. There is also a women's and teen's ATML list
and I think one for AT-Maintainers as well as the one he has
exclusively for the new trail class. You'd be surprised how
many people do not belong to both lists. So if you have an
announcement about the Trail or a good gear sale it's good
to post to both. Currently there is a big discussion on
ATML about serious stuff. I once characturized ATML
as being more for serious stuff while AT-L was more silly,
but I have to retract that since Feeelix is on both ;^)
Tim Hewitt wrote:
> I don't know if anyone has asked this before, but why do we have two mailing
> lists to talk about the same "stuff?" I know that Wingfoot runs one and Ryan
> runs the other, but don't they serve the same purpose?
>
> How many of us are on both lists?
>
> How many of us are not?
>
> Doesn't it make sense to combine these lists into one AT Discussion list?
>
> Many of us automatically post new messages to both lists, thus causing most of
> the answers to also be cross-posted (I delete duplicates now before digging
> through them).
>
> Any historical perspectives would be interesting.
>
> -Paddler (ok, I know you are waiting for this....... 315 days and counting :)
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