Should I add topics?

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Jason McBrayer once stated:
> Hi, all. List-admin hat is on.
> 
> Mailman2, which this list is using, has a feature where you can add
> "topics" to a list. They are reflected in the subject of the message,
> and you can choose through the web interface to subscribe only to topics
> you are interested in. You set the topic of a message you send through a
> header in your email (or a pseudo-header in the first couple of lines of
> message body).
> 
> I haven't enabled this feature because this is, so far, a pretty
> low-volume list. But I'm wondering if markup language discussion should
> be split off from protocol discussion so that people who are not
> interested in that discussion can skip it. It would also be possible to
> set up topics for software announcements, client/server development,
> etc.
> 
> Let me know if you're interested or opposed.

  Personally, I'm not interested.  Maybe if this list gets 100+ messages a
day, then it might be worth it.  Now?  Not so much.

  -spc (Once was on a list that hit 500+ new messages in a single day)