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layout: post
title: Side discussions for increasing signal-to-noise
created: 1077180060
categories: 
- email
- mailing list
- QuickTopic
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<p>
	Found this over at the Planet GNOME pages, which seems to have similar bearing on the problem with lists:</p>
<blockquote>
	<p>
		Rather than fragmenting lists by &quot;general topic&quot;, which seems not to work, why don&#39;t we fragment list traffic on a per discussion basis. Very few discussions will need this, but the few that do we can not destroy the public list&#39;s readability for the week+ it takes to run its course.</p>
	<p>
		<a href="http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/ddl-problems" title="Seth Nickell: A Listy Dilemma">Seth Nickell: A Listy Dilemma</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>
	A solution for implementing Seth&#39;s idea (which were based around the same signal-to-noise issues that I thought of) would be to use <a href="http://www.quicktopic.com/">QuickTopic</a>.</p>