[ale] Tax software for Linux ... FAIRTAX

[Jim Popovitch]

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 16:52 -0500, William Bagwell wrote:

> Why separate lists? If a change is warranted, (looks like consensus is 
> against it) Mailman supports multiple topics with a single list. I'm on two 
> very *un*-technical lists that have 18 or more topics. Confuses the newbies 
> for a few days when they first join one, works great for allmost everyone 
> else. Doubt there are very many total newbies on a linux list.

Topics are a iffy feature for Mailman.  The biggest issue I've seen is
that one needs a better understanding of it before they know it's value,
however they need to know it's value before they can better understand
it.  Case in point:  If a new user is defaulted to all topics, they
don't see the need for (or even learn about) using topics.  If they are
defaulted to only topic X emails, then they never see what they are
missing and start posting off-topic posts to topic X.  So usually all
new folks select all topics and rarely specify topics themselves, unless
they are replying to an email that already has a topic in the subject
line.  Topics only work when everyone properly uses them, else you have
what I call ALE. ;-)

-Jim P.