All true. However, unless you like to read the news offline, you can just
download the threads that you want to see and ignore the rest. Perhaps that
is a cure for the folks that just hate to get mail about technical issuer
and those who are less than interested in elves. :-}
For many of us, email gets delivered whether we want to read it or not. A
newsgroup is the cure, as Kim suggests.
In fact, we probably would do well with both a harp makers group and a harp
players group. It would be nice to be able to have a substantive technical
discussion with other harpmakers without feeling that it is unwelcome to
the group as a whole.
> If we become a newsgroup, we are then open to the entire Internet,
>with all of the associated problems (spamming, rude behavior, etc.).
And we don't get behavior/communication problems now? Ask anybody who has
been in anything even minimally controversial-like Rhonda for instance.
Some of the flames that the list members can send are downright hair
curling.