Re: Keeping the off-topic off the list

[Mech <mech@m3ch.net>]

At 8:40 PM +0200 8/29/07, David Steinberg wrote:
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>It's simple : people who subscribe to this list are interested in 
>reading and sharing informations about loopers and looping music, 
>and tangent subjects such as the instruments used, etc. are also of 
>interest to most of them. But that's it.

Speak for yourself there.  In my own case, I find the LD list to be 
one of the best collections of polymaths on any music-oriented 
Internet mailing list.  Like all polymaths, the majority of its 
members are interested in many different fields.  And just as they 
can post intelligently about looping-related subjects, they can post 
every bit as interestingly about pretty much anything.

In other words, I'm here for the people, not just the "on-topic content".

>That's why I think that another list could be a good thing. Of 
>course, it can only work if most of the "usual posters" here do 
>agree about this and use it.

To be clear, I agree pretty much with Warren's sentiments earlier. 
Yet, I'm not really opposed to a parallel list, either (I even 
suggested that myself at one point).  As Per and a few others have 
mentioned, it's relatively little work to simply filter it all into 
the same mailbox and go on business-as-usual.

To that end, however, can you please post the direct address for 
subscribing to LDOT from a *non* Gmail email account?  Google's being 
stupid (keeps trying to force me to create a new gmail addy with so 
much gobbledegook that I'll never remember the damn thing; yes, it's 
the system, because I'm already requesting things so ridiculously 
convoluted that there's no way anybody has these addresses).  I'm 
rather irritated at them right now, and it would be much easier to 
simply send a "subscribe" command.  Bugger-all this web-based 
garbage.  :P

Thanks in advance for any assistance!

        --m.
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