Steve Vertigo wrote: I just had to catch up with a month's worth of edits! :-P I wonder if such a suggestion is even possible; but you at least have my sympathy. The new reader part is not a big bother. These questions are often short and simple, and many can be easily be answered by whoever happens to be available. Some of the debates are extremely annoying, such as the recent Robert/Jtdirl dispute, and the ones that complain about yet another reincarnation of Lir. Perhaps we could have a whineopedia mailing list (or if our Brits prefer a wingeopedia). A moderator on this list could redirect any qualifying letters to that list. Or perhaps, to save the sanity of the moderator, an anti-spam device could make the diversion. "Lir" and "anti-Semitism" are canditates for words that would trigger the diversion. Anyone who likes receiving this kind of message wuld be free to subscribe to the whineopedia list. :-) Ec

Umm.... Would that be eligible for Wikimedia funds? :} I think it may be getting practical --- there seems to be inclreased traffic on the lists -- I still cant figure out why the Village pump isnt run as some kind of threaded chat page. -- even that would be against the purpose of -- the digests are miserable due to all the metadata, -- the archives are fairly ok to read from -- aside from plain email -- but theres no return form from archives to answer with, and it has an annoying bug of not wrapping unformatted text -- so that LD's and others messages read as a single very long string... Forget about the "trend analysis" thing for mail -- its a bit too Psychohistory. There should be an article: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory :P -S- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com