To allow these:
A mailing list indicates interest, so PageClusters are used to group topics:
Problems with this scheme:
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I have no idea if this combination of ideas is new or not, but thought it worth getting out of my head and on Wiki just in case...[new]
Quite possibly. That page doesn't contain any details of the scheme, and the link is dead.[new] Another example is MetaBaby, but to a lesser extent. Anyway, it doesn't work very well. -- SunirShah
[new] What goes wrong? --ChrisPurcell
[new] It's a mailing list. There is no perceived commons, and therefore no maintenance of common space. If you want to have a wiki, use a wiki, and forego the mailing list. Jon's articles explains what's dumb about mailing lists. [1] -- SunirShah
Your [ new ] tag thing is broken. --ss
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I'd thought we'd written this idea up in WikiFeatures, but I guess not. You should write it up- this is a good idea.
No, WikiFeatures:MailedUpdates ain't it. We need WikiFeatures:PerPageMailingList, or something like that.
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Ka-Ping Yee's "nosy list" idea (from Jon's article) could be added to this: grab extra e-mail addresses from the cc-list of replies and sign them up to a cluster.Define external redirect: BuiltinThreading