On Sat, 16 Jan 1993 12:39:05 -0400 Lydia Fish said: >I would like to second Jim's suggestion--I don't think anyone's interests would >be served by fragmenting this list. For what it's worth, I think it would be best to keep everything on one list too. But I did think it was worth discussing. If for no other reason than it's now clear to the list that novice type questions are perfectly appropriate. Combining that with this question, >Would it be possible to put NOV: on the subject line of quesitons or answers >intended only for beginners? Then people who have outgrown that stage cuold >just delete them without reading. I do have a suggestion that may help new list owners use this list more effectively. The recently announced "topic support" to be available in LISTSERV 1.7f could be used for this. I'd argue that it would be best to ask the non-novice list members to mark their postings. Maybe Technical: and Advanced: topics would be useful? With set the list up to not send those topics to new subscribers, only people that know enough to change their list subscriptions would see the postings that assumed significant levels of LISTSERV knowledge? >Lydia Fish (fishlm@snybufva) -jj