P3D Re: List fragmentation

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:47 PM 3/25/98 -0700, Mike Watters wrote:
>I don't see the addition of another category as any form of fragmentation.  
>Nobody says you have to pick only ONE list to be picking up.  If you wanna
hear 
>about digital stereo, subscribe to D3D, if you want film, get P3D.  That's 
>already true of people who want to talk theory with T3D.   I similarly don't 
>see a problem adding additional categories for major divisions of interest 
>(collecting and camera hacking would be two more obvious divisions)
Anybody who 
>wants it all can have it all.  
>
>Those that choose to trim their incoming mail to make it easier to find the 
>notes they'd find interesting.  The change would be nearly transparent to
>someone in ACK mode.  For those in digest, it would make for smaller packets 
>more finely tuned to their interests.   This isn't any different than when an
>open newsgroup splits.

Yes, that's true for reading posts.  Suppose you want to initiate a post
about 3D in general, a topic which spans both film and digital
representations?  Where do you post it?  Both lists?

-pd


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