Re: Help on Mailing lists (creating ML for enya)

[cbmvax!grr@uunet.UU.NET (George Robbins)]

In article <65072@apple.Apple.COM> ml@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au writes:
> 
> I'm seriously considering setting up mailing list for information and articles,
> ect. about enya.  Articles and discussion on rec.music.newage are getting a
> little on the mundane side with regard to enya - always the same questions
> being asked.  Hopefully a mailing list would lessen the mundane messages and
> quell passions and flames and the same time. (There is a proposal to create a
> rec.music.enya newsgroup but somehow I don't think it will succeed as there 
> might not be enough users dedicated to carry the newsgroup on.  But I might be
> wrong.  It has not yet gone to a vote.)

Mailing lists are an incredible pain in the butt (for the list maintainer).
Not only do you have hassles with mail bouncing, you always get requests to
join when you don't have time/energy to deal with them, and you will still
be getting them long after the list is dead.

What you want to do is create alt.music.enya or alt.fan.enya - alternate
groups are usually created after only a little discussion and without the
voting stuff.  If it's still active n-months from now, and you have ~20
different people posting per month, you will probably have enough readers
for a vote to pass.  If not, it was just a momentary excitement and didn't
really justify it's own group vs. the general new age category.

See alt.config and related groups for details.  I should be admitted that
not everyone can get the alt groups, but still it gives the most bang for
the buck, and you can set up an e-mai gateway if you wish.