[Consim-l] Re: Internet clutter

[Neil]

Hi Mike
Will bringing these groups together in the end work?
For instance say you get 10 lists to amalgamate. These have 3 messages a
month. (twice as many as you referred to) You now have an amalgamated list
that has a message once a day.

We will then have this conversation again saying in the old days we had more
messages than we do now.

The question we have to ask is what we have to do to get more of the members
involved. Like you say some of these lists have hundreds of members. I
wonder whether it's because we have so little time in our modern lives. Is
reading 20 or 30 emails a day too much for some people s they look at
something smaller in list size? 

 (I'm a little different, I have just changed jobs and although I work 13
hours a day I'm actually allowed to email and web surf and even game a lot
of the time.)

I do like the idea about the game reviews and this is something that could
get interest going. How do we get the companies onboard though?

Regards Neil

Well, I'm glad it works for you Dave, but I have to tell you, I think it is
a 
problem.

"Close to half the publishers can simply be ignored, because the stuff
they put out is nearly always crap."

Maybe.  But want to bet your half is not always identical to my half? 
 Wouldn't we both be better served if "our" publishers announced new
products 
on this list, then you and I both write a review?  May not entice either of
us 
to buy a specific title, might not even change our opinions of those 
publishers, but for the price of a few delete key strokes we'd both be able
to 
monitor that many more games.  Add in the contributions of everybody else on

the list and you'd have a decent daily snapshot of the hobby...

"Both lists appear to be essentially dead so it's kind of a moot point."

But what happens when a newbie goes to yahoo groups and searches for 
"wargames". Or "Avalon Hill"?  And finds dozens of lists under each?  And 
takes the time to sign up for all them, then rarely gets a message, and when

they do, its from a different list than the last message and there is no
easy 
way to connect those two posters, who might in fact have something in
common? 
 Or maybe our newbie notes there are only 100 or so subscribers to each
list, 
and only 3 messages in the last 2 months and concludes that nobody plays
Avalon 
Hill any more?

As a public service I'm going to forgo a night of gaming and instead sign up

for each of those lists, then publish a plea to the list owners to remove
them 
in favor of a consolidated list.  Wargaming related lists that don't
generate 
traffic actually divide us.  We're all talking, but on different channels, 
hence little communication.